[clug] Why isn't Java popular on the Linux Desktop?

[jan]

Sam Couter <sam at couter.id.au> writes:
> Hugh Fisher <hugh.fisher at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>> Microsoft let you write code in your preferred language on
>> top of CLR. (Yes I know you can implement Python and other
>> languages on top of JVM with enough effort, but JVM wasn't
>> designed to make it easy.)
>
> No, it was designed to support Java. The language and the JVM are pretty
> tightly integrated, the JVM isn't a general-purpose VM.

The JVM is being extended to better support other languages.

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/

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jan