Re:On Apple's Love Affair with Swift
by pjmlp on Sunday August 12, 2018 @12:32PM
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Regarding 2.
I am fully convinced that if Java and .NET had a proper AOT toolchain from day 1, meaning beyond dynamic linking (NGEN) or commercial offerings from 3rd party JDKs, C's influence on FOSS world would have been much less than it achieved to be.
And we would already have achieved an UNIX like stack closer to what Inferno/Limbo was all about.
I am fully convinced that if Java and .NET had a proper AOT toolchain from day 1, meaning beyond dynamic linking (NGEN) or commercial offerings from 3rd party JDKs, C's influence on FOSS world would have been much less than it achieved to be.
And we would already have achieved an UNIX like stack closer to what Inferno/Limbo was all about.