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saagarjha
on Jan 20, 2021
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Java on Truffle – Going Fully Metacircular
Are there non-mainstream languages with more tooling? Seems like it would be a bit surprising if there were…
pjmlp
on Jan 20, 2021
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I guess they meant Smalltalk and Common Lisp commercial endeavours of the 90's.
And indeed, there are a couple of things that Java and .NET still don't do.
erik_seaberg
on Jan 21, 2021
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It sounds like Sun acqui-hired some people who worked on Self and Strongtalk to get those ideas into the HotSpot JVM:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongtalk
pjmlp
on Jan 21, 2021
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They did, some of them went to work on V8 and Dart 1.0 VM afterwards.
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