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Why bother? Being on the JVM has many advantages and building some new VM (and compiler?) would be extra hassle and expense for not much gain.
by ForHackernews 8y ago
Why bother? Being on the JVM has many advantages and building some new VM (and compiler?) would be extra hassle and expense for not much gain.
- PunchTornado 8y agomoving away from oracle is `not much gain`?
- ForHackernews 8y agoThere's already at least two big-name alternatives to Oracle Java: The OpenJDK and Amazon's Corretto. If you're suggesting Google might make their own "supported" OpenJDK build, then sure, that might be worth something. That's different than moving away from JVM entirely to a different compiler target, as suggested by the parent comment.
- pjmlp 8y agoOpenJDK is like 90% developed by Oracle with smaller contributions from other partners in the Java community, including the JEPs that bring Java forward.
- liopleurodon 8y agoOracle v Google
- curt15 8y agoAndroid has been using OpenJDK for a while with no problems.
- nl 8y agoGoogle vs Oracle isn't "no problems" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google,_Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_America,_Inc._v._Google....
- yorwba 8y agoAs far as I can tell, Oracle vs Google was due to Google not using OpenJDK, but their own implementation.
- dragandj 8y agoMoreover, their implementation didn’t work on standard compliand JVMs, and was called Java, despite being only similar to Java. Even Microsoft’s J++ worked on different JVMs if you didn’d use Windows specific classes...