My Vision of D’s Future

Re:My Vision of D’s Future by karussell on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:55AM (#21259837)

Java can do this via AOT or partially also JIT compilation.

For AOT there is this JEP: https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/295 and a different project: the GraalVM

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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by mhd on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @03:03PM (#21262371)

Java could do this always, as it's a compiled language (the important thing here is interactivity vs. compilation, not JVM vs. native).

So I'd say that Java can do "this" since recently (JDK 9 in 2017) via JShell (I wouldn't count BeanShell or Groovy), i.e. it always had the compiler part but added the interpreter.

Although its usage is still quite rare, whereas the blog post would suggest a different pattern.

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Re:My Vision of D’s Future by pjmlp on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @01:51PM (#21261464)

As addendum, Java has had support for AOT since around 2000, the only caveat is that it has been a feature only available on third party commercial JDKs.

GCJ improved very slowly and around 2009 lost most of its developers with the release of OpenJDK.

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