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Re:Scala Native by coldtea on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:25AM (#20745318)
Yes, you often mention them, but nobody [1] uses those, whereas GraalVM, due to coming Oracle and eventually being some kind of default (itself, not the AOT option per se), might do better.

[1] Where nobody = roughly as many people use CL/Haskell in production, and in any case, not any number to write home about...

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Re:Scala Native by pjmlp on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @06:37AM (#20745375)
Apparently they have been in business since 2000's.

It bet that they have much more deployments in production than CL/Haskell, given the embedded space.

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Re:Scala Native by coldtea on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @11:28AM (#20748028)
Probably, just wanting to take a jab at you :-)

My point really being that, yeah, JVM-AOT existed since forever, but they have always been niche in the grand scheme of things (especially since you need a commercial license for most, and in this industry, after 2000, that's almost a death kiss).

If Sun had bundled the same option and made it easy to use, it would be a whole different story.

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Re:Scala Native by pjmlp on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @12:07PM (#20748540)
Yeah the typical wanted to be payed, but not wanting to pay for the work of others.

Thankfully corporations business levels works a bit differently, hence the rise of dual licenses.

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