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I wouldn't even pick Python, but the JVM, where there are multiple very successful options and several businesses built on top of "totally redundant implementat
by oorza 6y ago
I wouldn't even pick Python, but the JVM, where there are multiple very successful options and several businesses built on top of "totally redundant implementations."
- The_rationalist 6y agoWtf? The standard implementation has won (openjdk) and any other implementation is only historic baggage or a niche. All human effort that has gone in openj9 has been wasted
- tannhaeuser 6y agoJ9 is used a lot with IBM customers (banks + other finance on WebSphere aka Websfear). I'm not going to defend Java here, but Java/JVM might very well be the last flagship of a huge language + API + testsuite with multiple interworking implementations. If you don't like that, then there will be only proprietary single-vendor languages going forward.
- pjmlp 6y agoThere are like 10 major JVMs around between commercial, open source and research variants.
- OskarS 6y agoYes, for sure, that's an even better example. GraalVM is a good recent thing showing the strength of many implementations.
- pjmlp 6y agoActually GraalVM isn't that recent, its history goes back to MaximeVM, initially released in 2005, so GraalVM has 15 years of research work put into it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Virtual_Machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxine_Virtual_Machine