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Re:An obscure research project could accelerate innovation i... by gwenzek on Sunday January 08, 2017 @05:26AM (#13349148)
The question is can you create a language like Scala with it? Ie with complex type inference? Or Haskell? Because if it constrains you to Java like languages, I don't see this as "innovation in language design".
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Re:An obscure research project could accelerate innovation i... by jerven on Sunday January 08, 2017 @06:55AM (#13349352)
This is the execution layer, i.e. how is that Scala program turned into machine code. You can make a Haskell implemented using Truffle. Or Rust etc... Haskell, defines the semantics of a program, while truffle turns that semantics into executable code.
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