[Openmcl-devel] The M1 port and the future of CCL

[Scott L. Burson]

> The future of Java is entirely up to Oracle at this point.

I don't think so.  OpenJDK is open source, with support from IBM, Apple,
and Red Hat as well.  I don't think one company could kill it either.

-- Scott


On Wed, Nov 22, 2023 at 1:37 PM Ron Garret <ron at flownet.com> wrote:

>
>
> > On Nov 22, 2023, at 1:20 PM, Scott L. Burson <Scott at sympoiesis.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > It would be nice to see CCL kept alive, but personally, I've settled on
> ABCL.  The JVM's GC technology is unmatched, the Java interop is
> occasionally useful, and it's completely future-proof.
>
> I'm not sure that's true.  Flash was once considered future-proof and you
> can see how that went.  The future of Java is entirely up to Oracle at this
> point.  I'll grant you that makes it a good bet, but it's not a guarantee.
>
> I'd bet on C (ECL) before I bet on Java.  No one company could kill it
> even if they wanted to.
>
> rg
>
>
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