Bravo for the dynamic runtime!

This week several of us from Sun attended the Lang.NET Symposium. The symposium was intensely technical and even downright inspiring. Our hosts kindly welcomed presentations from some of us at Sun; we introduced the Da Vinci Machine project. The centerpiece of the conference was the new Dynamic Language Runtime which factors out the reusable logic that glues dynamic languages on top of the CLR.

Why am I suddenly excited about Microsoft technology? Two or three reasons. First, the DLR (with IronPython and IronRuby) is another evidence that we are in some sort of renaissance or resurgence of programming language design. The second thing that excited me at Redmond was a striking case of parallel evolution between the DLR over the CLR on one hand and the Da Vinci Machine over the JVM on the other side... The final reason is that I am excited for the customers of the JVM, because they will also enjoy the new languages in an expansive open-source community, and on their choice of blazingly fast Java virtual machines. [Read More]

Posted by jrose [JVM] ( February 02, 2008 05:05 AM ) Permalink | Comments[4]