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The JVM is great and all, but that doesn't mean that it is the be-all end-all of the genre. And having mucked with class loaders and writing directly in JVM ass
by epistasis 2y ago
The JVM is great and all, but that doesn't mean that it is the be-all end-all of the genre. And having mucked with class loaders and writing directly in JVM assembly in the 2000s as part of programming language classes, I'm not sure that the JVM is even a very high point in the genre.
Sure, it allowed a large ecosystem, but holy crap is the whole JVM interface to the external world a clunky mess. For 20+ years I have groaned when encountering anything JVM related.
Comparing the packaging and ecosystem of Rust to that of Python, or shudder C++, shows that reinvention, with lessons learned in prior decades, can be a very very good thing.