Will GPL Java eat into Python marketshare?
Maurice LING
mauriceling at acm.org
Thu Nov 16 03:55:18 EST 2006
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 22:41:19 GMT, Maurice LING <mauriceling at acm.org>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
>
>
>>I'm hoping for a more optimistic outcome that this may open a
>>possibility for tigher interoperability between java programs and python
>>programs. That is, run java class files or java codes natively on python
>>VM. Is this still a blue sky dream?
>>
>
> Most unlikely to happen... I don't really see anyone going to the
> effort to change the javac back-end to target a totally different
> runtime engine.
I admit that it is very very unlikely. I guess it is just a wild dream
of mine to run Java bytecodes and Python bytecodes on Python VM. I do
have a wild vision that we can import java libraries (as jar files) into
CPython.
ML
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