Use case?

Posted Nov 15, 2019 12:30 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753)
In reply to: Use case? by yodermk
Parent article: Announcing the Bytecode Alliance

The only rationale I can think of is that JVM is not completely universal: it has limitations by design that make implementing C or C++ efficiently hard. On the other hand, that has not prevented using the JVM for a number of other languages (a rather long list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages).

Then there is Microsoft's CLI (the one originally made for C#), which does support a C++ implementation (by Microsoft), which that should prove it is flexible enough (lit of CLI languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CLI_languages). But I guess its association with Microsoft makes people wary of basing open source projects on it (even though there has long been an open-source implementation of the runtime).