2010/11/10 Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>: > 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).
I think the simple response to that is "why design a language and extended library, when you could just design a language?" Sure, you will likely have a core set of libraries that are made possible by your new language and you'd like to explore them more, but I doubt there are many programs out there "in the wild" for any of the jvm targeted languages that do not use some libraries written in Java. -- 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.
