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He's not saying that. What he is saying is that are simple, non-production quality implementation in Scala is much more amenable to experimentation than a sophi
by patrec 3y ago
He's not saying that. What he is saying is that are simple, non-production quality implementation in Scala is much more amenable to experimentation than a sophisticated, production-quality implementation in C++ that weighs in at 300x the LOC.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y agoBut a simple non-production quality implementation in C++ would also be amenable to experimentation and not have the bootstrapping issues as well as provide an easier starting point to incorporate more of the existing optimizations as desired.
- eindiran 3y agoThat is true, but the author of Metascala wanted to write it in Scala. Other people are free to write a simple C++ implementation of the JVM themselves.
- valenterry 3y agoProbably not, because JVM users are much more likely to be more proficient in Scala/Java than in C++.