Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK

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Post by Alupis » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 6:10 PM UTC

Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK
mail.openjdk.java.net

Re: Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK

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Post by nereu » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 6:36 PM UTC

cool

Re: Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK

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Post by abledon » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 6:38 PM UTC

Hypothetical Question: Is it at all possible to eventually merge Java and C# back into a single language? Say in 2030 ?

Re: Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK

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Post by cdbattags » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 6:41 PM UTC

abledon wrote: post #3

Hypothetical Question: Is it at all possible to eventually merge Java and C# back into a single language? Say in 2030 ?

I'd say not or at least they'd have to abstract for different runtimes

.NET/Core and JVM have quite diverged I would think

Re: Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK

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Post by ahoka » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 6:42 PM UTC

abledon wrote: post #3

Hypothetical Question: Is it at all possible to eventually merge Java and C# back into a single language? Say in 2030 ?

No. Why would anyone do that? Maybe C# could be moved to the JVM, that could make some sense, but unlikely.

Re: Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK

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Post by m4r35n357 » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 6:42 PM UTC

abledon wrote: post #3

Hypothetical Question: Is it at all possible to eventually merge Java and C# back into a single language? Say in 2030 ?

What would be the point? C# has been well and truly tied to the Visual Studio / MSSQL / Resharper stack.

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Post by kerng » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 6:42 PM UTC

Cool, looks according to post submission this actually happened end of October.

How did it go so far? Anyone know more?

Re: Microsoft’s Ready to Contribute to OpenJDK

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Post by UglyToad » Thu, Dec 19, 2019, 6:43 PM UTC

abledon wrote: post #3

Hypothetical Question: Is it at all possible to eventually merge Java and C# back into a single language? Say in 2030 ?

Funnily enough I was thinking an almost identical thing this morning. We had IKVM [0] for.NET, which if I understood it correctly allowed Java to run on the CLR (I probably misunderstood this).

I'm not entirely sure why Microsoft don't build something official to run Java code on the CLR/.NET, is it a technical or legal limitation, or simply that there's no business need?

[0]: https://www.ikvm.net/