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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by jasonpeacock on Friday April 22, 2016 @11:04AM (#11549703)
Actually, ION was originally developed for C++ and took quite a while to gain Java support.

Source: I was there.

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Re:Amazon open-sources Ion – a binary and text interchangabl... by tjonker on Saturday April 23, 2016 @06:17PM (#11557665)
Sorry, this isn't true. The Java and C++ implementations were developed simultaneously, by different authors. The Java side has always been more full-featured, and has always had a larger user base by at least an order of magnitude. Today IonJava is among the most widely-consumed libraries within Amazon.

Source: I am one of the primary authors.

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