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Could F# be ported to JVM?

• juststeve 7y ago
  JVM has already got clojure, scala and kotlin.
• pjmlp 7y ago
  Not until JVM supports value types, low level pointer manipulation and reiffed generics.
  • zelly 7y ago
    2 out of 3 of those are coming in Valhalla. You don't need pointers.
    • pjmlp 7y ago
      If you want to support F# without performance degradation emulating features, I am not so certain.
  • adgasf 7y ago
    In addition to that, the .NET runtime supports tail calls but the JVM does not, IIRC.
    • pjmlp 7y ago
      Yes, JVM still has it under "some day it would be nice". Actually this is one of the bytecodes that .NET Native doesn't handle, if I am not mistaken.
• phillipcarter 7y ago
  Yes, but it wouldn't be F#. F# is so deeply tied to .NET semantics that you'd have a very different language, even if the syntax looked the same.