Will Java go native?

PauloPinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Thu Sep 19 07:05:56 PDT 2013


On Thursday, 19 September 2013 at 13:55:34 UTC, Olivier Pisano 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 September 2013 at 23:53:35 UTC, Iain Buclaw 
> wrote:
>>
>> Java itelf is a very basic language to allow this to be 
>> possible.  But
>> the library implementation denies this, and I don't see native 
>> support
>> beyond JNI.
>
> Native Java won't be a problem for D if they keep JNI for 
> talking to the system. I wish I never had to work with JNI in 
> multithreaded environment. All the type information goes away 
> and their global reference system is impossible to use with 
> RAII correctly.
>
> D's ability of using a C function just by declaring it and 
> linking with C code is a bless.

That I fully agree.


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