Re: [DotGNU]Choice of bytecode spec (was: Support Java for .GNU)

[tali streit]

Adam Theo wrote:

> Norbert Bollow wrote:
>
> > By equally supporting both C# and Java, DotGNU can become a home
> > both for those Java programmers who decide to migrate to C# and
> > also for those Java programmers who prefer to continue working
> > with Java.
>
> hm, yes, i like this. i retract my previous suggestion of only
> supporting Mono/IL, and now say we should support and work on both..
> let's not bother with creating our own bytecode, at least any time soon.
> let's just work on supporting all the existing ones.

... and when we do our own bytecode it should be a case of having IL -> 
bytecode and Java -> bytecode compilers and also bytecode -> native 
compilers.

then you can download the bytecode application and have it compile into 
a native executable that executes using direct system calls, hopefully 
providing the level of speed necessary. using a cache for these 
downloaded applications it would not be necessary to recompile it unless 
it changes at the server.

I would be nice not to favor one language over another. ideally visual 
basic developers would use DotGNU in preference to .NET, right?

I see DotGNU as being more flexible then .NET

-zenic