On 07.02.2009, at 01:19, mikel wrote: > What happens to Clojure if something bad happens to the JVM? > > It's not that I think the JVM is going away any time soon. Sure, Sun > looks kind of shaky right now, but there are alternative sources of > JVMs. Probably the JVM can survive even if Sun doesn't.
At the current state, Clojure itself is probably way more at risk of disappearing than the JVM. There are several JVM implementations, including Open Source ones. > Can you imagine a Clojure implementation on a different underlying > runtime? Which ones might possibly be suitable? The language itself could certainly be implemented on a different VM, or as a native code compiler. It would just be a lot of work. However, how many Clojure projects out there depend on some Java library? There might be no practical interest in Clojure without the JVM. > Can you imagine a > Clojure on top of, say the CLR? Or on top of a Common Lisp? Or on GHC > or perhaps the LLVM? There is a JVM on top of the LLVM already, search for vmkit for the details. Konrad. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
