Re: [DotGNU]Who is working on the IL VM?

[Norbert Bollow]

Martin Coxall <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am. I am aware that Portable.NET and Mono have different goals as far as 
> the compilers are concerned, but the runtime and class libraries, our goals 
> are *the same* and we are duplicating effort.

Are you sure?  For example, is the Mono project interested in
building a runtime that allows IL-based portable executables
to exchange data with programs that come in the form of Java
bytecode?

> Anything else would be a dangerous duplication of effort.

What exactly is so dangerous about there being another free
software project with similar goals, where one can safely
read the code as a source of inspiration?

Greetings, Norbert.

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