Perhaps a little emphasis in your quastion would make the answer more
obvious:

"Why target Oracle's Java *optimised *JVM or Microsoft's C# *optimised *
CLR?"

They're optimised... massively.  Optimisations in the JVM have accumulated
over many years now, and it's arguably the best performing VM currently
available.

That, and the gazillions of libraries/tools that are available for the
platform.


On 11 November 2010 07:46, Vince O'Sullivan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Nov 10, 6:13 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote:
> > My understanding of the question is: "I want to develop a new language,
> what
> > are the pros and cons of targeting the JVM?".
>
> Ah, you've put it much better than I did!
> That's it exactly.  Why target Oracle's Java optimised JVM or
> Microsoft's C# optimised CLR?  (Apart from "because they're and
> everywhere".)  Isn't there an open VM suitable for hosting these open
> languages?
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