You are saying that the JVM doesn't foster cross-language interop even among JVM languages? The team I work on has been using interop between various combinations of Java, Groovy, Clojure, and Scala all the time. What is missing?
COM? I spent thousands of hours mastering COM, and the OLE framework, and ActiveX components. At the time, people believed that those were the key career skills for the future. In hindsight, those technologies were horrible. I've never met anyone who felt otherwise. On Jan 20, 1:45 pm, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Jeb Beich <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hasn't writing a function in language X and using it in language Y been a > > reality on the Java platform for a while now? > > It's not a reality even if you limit the claim to languages that only run > in the JVM. > > COM goes way, way further than that. What Microsoft saw that nobody else > did is that the important part is the ABI, not the API. -- 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.
