D and Java [was Re: The DUB package manager]

Russel Winder russel at winder.org.uk
Mon Feb 25 21:16:29 PST 2013


On Sun, 2013-02-24 at 16:32 -0500, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
[…]
> Luckily, modern server hardware should support hardware virtualization,
> and most languages/libs are pretty good at cross-platform, so this
> one shouldn't be much of a "reason for JVM" anymore like it might have
> been ten or so years ago.

But this is where "virtual != virtual": hardware virtualization is a
different thing from virtual machines. The reason for JVM and PVM
remains even in a world of server virtualization. Cross platform is not
the application developers problem using a virtual machine as it is with
native codes. This has not changed.

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