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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by djsumdog on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:31AM (#12590336)
It's a subset of Java, with a totally different compiler, JIT, etc. Newer versions don't even use Dalvic, but compile/cache the bytecode into ELF/machine code.
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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by vegabook on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @11:45AM (#12590457)
What does it matter what's underneath? At the visible layer which most of us have to use, it's java.
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