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Re:About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight” by hansjorg on Friday December 13, 2013 @03:59PM (#6902877)
Except that between the two, only the JVM is truly cross platform, Mono notwithstanding.
Re:About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight” by _random_ on Friday December 13, 2013 @06:55PM (#6903618)
Really? How can I use JVM on iOS? Is there a good toolchain for Java -> native iOS?
Re:About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight” by bad_user on Saturday December 14, 2013 @05:08AM (#6905274)
Besides RoboVM [1], there are also other solutions, like Codename One [2] that's based on XMLVM [3], or Avian [4] which is a new and very promising lightweight VM that can also compile code to native. And there's also J2ObcC [5] a compiler that's being developed and used by Google to share code between Android and iOS.

You know, Java can be many things, but you can't beat its ecosystem ;-)

[1] http://www.robovm.org/

[2] http://www.codenameone.com/

[3] http://xmlvm.org/overview/

[4] http://oss.readytalk.com/avian/

[5] http://code.google.com/p/j2objc/

Re:About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight” by rbanffy on Friday December 13, 2013 @10:03PM (#6904388)
We were talking about servers. A Java program can run on just about every server platform out there, from puniest Windows Server machines all the way to IBM's largest mainframe and Cray's larger supercomputer.
Re:About PayPal's Node vs Java “fight” by chii on Friday December 13, 2013 @11:20PM (#6904597)
sure there is - RoboVM just came out recently.

In any case, JVM runs on more platforms than any others.