On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote:
> What I'm interested in is seeing a discussion of the strategic wisdom >> of developing languages that are dependent upon a propietary VM (i.e. >> the JVM) which itself is targeted at a different languages (i.e. Java) >> and to which these other languages are de facto commercial rivals. >> >> > The "strategic wisdom" you're looking for is essentially the same as the > answer to the question "why don't we all still use COBOL?" > You keep missing the point of the original poster with amazing consistency. My understanding of the question is: "I want to develop a new language, what are the pros and cons of targeting the JVM?". A discussion that would be part of the answer might be to contrats the mindshare of the JVM (a definite pro) and its limitations, such as having been designed initially for Java and therefore, not offering as much flexibility to support different kinds of languages as other targets might (I'm guessing LLVM is more versatile in that respect). -- Cédric -- 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.
