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Re:Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension by newlisp on Thursday January 06, 2022 @09:53PM (#29834204)
A robust performant multithreaded runtime with a big set of enterprise libraries for the big boys.
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Re:Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension by mpd on Friday January 07, 2022 @01:57AM (#29835913)
That explains the JVM, but why Java, specifically? JRuby offers everything you mention.
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Re:Open-sourcing the Sorbet VS Code Extension by newlisp on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:49AM (#29840488)
Jruby is anything but performant when compared to Java, there's overhead.
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