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Weblog:   Virtual Machine War
Subject:   JVM multi-language years ago
Date:   2003-10-30 15:55:24
From:   ramonarjona
Response to: JVM multi-language years ago

It is certainly true that languages other than the Java language have been run on the JVM. Gosling has pointed this out, I believe, in at least one interview.


It is also true that Microsoft shipped a "shared source" implementation of the .NET runtime for BSD.


However, both of these efforts can be dismissed as academic exercises. There are no production quality implementations of non-Java languages for the JVM, just as there are no production quality MS .NET offerings for *nix operating systems. I would, of course, be very excited to find a counter example of which I'm currently unaware, but this is the state of the world as I know it today.
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  • JVM multi-language years ago
    2003-10-31 05:38:14  A. M. Kuchling | [View]

    Um... Jython is production-quality as shown by the commercial companies that are using it to provide extensibility for various applications.

    On the other hand, both the CLR and Parrot Python implementations were research exercises that were far from complete and quite slow.
    • JVM multi-language years ago
      2003-11-22 17:13:14  anonymous2 [View]

      True - jython is quite useable, but it constantly seems to be far behind in implementing the current Python language releases. Of even more concern is that it is unclear how much reliable support there is in developing/maintaining jython.
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