Well, Scala itself can be fairly-easily retrofitted to compile against a different back-end (hey, it can already target .NET!) and there's a project already on GitHub allowing LLVM to be targeted. I wouldn't be at all surprised to see other languages taking a similar approach.
There's also a good chance of more effort going into projects like VMKit - a JVM implemented over LLVM. It'll be interesting to see what happens with regards to user interfaces in this regard (I guess swing will be out), I can imagine any number of fascinating possibilities based on LLVM code running directly on a GPU. On 21 October 2010 14:20, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 21, 2:14 pm, Kevin Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yet it was Apple themselves who deprecated the Java-Cocoa bindings. That > > was a sad day... > > Yeah they certainly seem to have a "remove the band-aid slowly and > perhaps nobody will notice" strategy. > > Our own posse chief, Dick Wall, has gone all-in with Scala. It's thus > not that hard to imagine a future where the runtime is irrelevant and > we will just use whichever fits the best, and bundle it along with > required libraries. Unfortunately for JSE, it failed to renew itself > and remain attractive... Apple's issue is not really with Java [the > language], but with the platform (runtime and particular the UI > libraries). > > My prediction for the future is that desktop Java will continue to > fade away much like applets have done [shameless plug, I investigated > that issue a few years ago: http://goo.gl/wZ6V]. Apple not only > recognizes this, they choose to take an active part (as they have with > Flash). So either Oracle pours a ginourmous amount of cash into it, or > the community shows remarkable synergy and determination. Or... we > just move on. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Kevin Wright mail / gtalk / msn : [email protected] pulse / skype: kev.lee.wright twitter: @thecoda -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
