Re: comment from James Gosling on multi-language VM

2015-04-17 Thread Thomas Wuerthinger
C actually runs very well on the JVM using Java bytecodes as shown by work of Matthias Grimmer [1]. This includes interoperability with other languages running on top of the JVM like JavaScript [2]. Current direction of this work is to extend to LLVM for expanding the support of AOT compiled

Re: comment from James Gosling on multi-language VM

2015-04-17 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:19 PM, John Rose john.r.r...@oracle.com wrote: Has anyone looked at the possibility of compiling languages other than Java to the Java bytecodes? xRuby compiles early Ruby to Java Bytecode https://code.google.com/p/xruby/ Jabaco compiles Visual Basic style source to

Re: comment from James Gosling on multi-language VM

2015-04-17 Thread John Rose
If you look closely at the date of the question, you'll see that it is almost exactly 20 years old, as is James' answer. — John On Apr 17, 2015, at 10:40 AM, Fernando Cassia fcas...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:19 PM, John Rose john.r.r...@oracle.com