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minus-squaretoastmeister@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoThere’s always Kotlin. Of course I never understood the desirability of a VM language in the first place, why not just compile for different architecture?
minus-squarechunes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days ago“Write once, run anywhere” is a pipe dream but Java came closer than anyone else by far.
minus-squarepadge@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoIt can help with standardization and some security benefits to run things in the JVM, part of the reason it’s so popular in enterprise
There’s always Kotlin. Of course I never understood the desirability of a VM language in the first place, why not just compile for different architecture?
“Write once, run anywhere” is a pipe dream but Java came closer than anyone else by far.
It can help with standardization and some security benefits to run things in the JVM, part of the reason it’s so popular in enterprise