Michal Cierniak – In my opinion modularity will not bring significant performance wins. I agree, but that’s not the point. Java needs modularity and ahead of time compilation so that it can start fast and share memory between processes, otherwise Steve Jobs has a point.
I don’t hear many folks, that run Java applications, complaining that [...]
Alex Buckley C# itself is no more or less designed for these analyses than Java. (in response to compilation approaches outlined in Worlds Apart – JVMs and CLIs).
I beg to differ, JVMs had to introduce hotspot compilers whereas CLIs have not because of a subtle design difference between the languages and, moreover, other design differences [...]
Glyn Normington: It’s interesting to speculate what would have happened if a static module system had been put into Java much earlier. My guess is that it wouldn’t have bothered to address versioning or dynamicity requirements which only become crucial in the context of relatively large systems with continuous operation.
Indeed it is interesting to speculate. [...]
So Rob and others have both pointed out that I used the term JSON incorrectly when referring to approaches 2 & 3 in my "Safe JSON" post. They are, of course, completely correct those approaches are returning Javascript and not JSON.
That got me thinking though is JSON Javascript? JSON is absolutely a valid javascript "expression", [...]
O’Reilly recently published this chart detailing trends in the computer book market.
Javascript is showing some pretty stellar growth, but Tim also has this to say “The net-net is that C# has definitely passed Java in the book market.”
I wonder if mono is helping drive that demand. The “.net for Unix” is already used by wikipedia [...]