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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

by 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.