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This is the second time in as many days that I've seen Microsoft listed as a contributor to Java, but my Google-fu doesn't turn up anything other than announcem
by happymellon 4y ago
This is the second time in as many days that I've seen Microsoft listed as a contributor to Java, but my Google-fu doesn't turn up anything other than announcements that they are building a JVM, and a paper from 1999 about inefficiency in bytecode which led the to opposite of helping Java.
A question in good faith, what has Microsoft done recently to contribute to Java?
- threeseed 4y agoMicrosoft is proud to have contributed the Windows on Arm port in 2020 as well as having made major contributions to the macOS M1 port. https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk https://www.microsoft.com/openjdk
- happymellon 4y agoAdding a link with slightly more details than a marketing one-liner, but thats interesting. https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/13854-microsoft-ports-openjdk-for-windows-10-on-arm.html https://www.i-programmer.info/news/80-java/13854-microsoft-p...
- pjmlp 4y agoBesides sibling comment, they are now a OpenJDK vendor since they bought jClarity. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/
- happymellon 4y agoSo their contributions to the JDK involve buying up someone else and making some proprietary extensions? Have any of these changes made it upstream or adopted by anyone else? [Edit] Sister comment points to Java on Arm contributions that Microsoft has done. There is also JClarity tooling that has been Open Sourced. I would have to take a further look to confirm that this is the case rather than Open to Abandon that some organisations do. Which is still better than leave closed and abandon.
- pjmlp 4y agoYes, some of it lands on OpenJDK proper, just like every other JVM vendor or commercial Linux distribution for that matter.