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They should add Java as a CLR-supported language :P

• wslh 13y ago
  You can always use IKVM for running Java under .NET! I used it for adding the boilerpipe Java library to navigate HackerNews by voice! Details at: http://blog.databigbang.com/voice-recognition-content-extraction-tts-innovative-web-browsing/ http://blog.databigbang.com/voice-recognition-content-extrac...
• yareally 13y ago
  They did that once before http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_Sharp
  • joseph_cooney 13y ago
    pretty sure he was being funny (hence the :P ... and the court cases).
• kyllo 13y ago
  I might use the opposite--a JVM implementation of C#--if such a thing existed. A port of Java on the CLR would be useless to me though, because I don't use .NET but if I did, C# has better features than Java as a language.
  • pjmlp 13y ago
    You cannot do that, because CLR has pointers, value types, unions and proper tail call optimization. So those features are not mappable to the JVM.
    • kyllo 13y ago
      So that means C/C++, Obj-C, and ML languages (SML, OCaml, F#) are all impossible to implement on the JVM?
      • pjmlp 13y ago
        You can only provide partial implementation. Scala goes to great extents to try to live without tail call optimization.