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It says right on the homepage "no virtual machine involved". So why is "VM" in the name? Surely that's just misleading?
by SifJar 13y ago
It says right on the homepage "no virtual machine involved". So why is "VM" in the name? Surely that's just misleading?
- joeblau 13y agoMaybe VM stands for Very Magical?
- pjmlp 13y agoMaybe because they use LLVM for code generation? But you are right, this VM <=> memory safe languages, has done more harm than good, making a whole generation think you require a VM for memory safe compilers.
- ntherning 13y agoThanks for pointing this out. I have now changed this to just "No interpreter involved". Except for not interpreting or JITing bytecode it's indeed very much a VM. E.g. it presents the same memory model and threading model to the running app as a desktop JVM would.