On: Apache loses Java showdown vote to Oracle

[elblanco]

Because sometimes compiling to an intermediate VM has advantages over compiling to native code.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1977956

[JoachimSchipper → elblanco]

I'd read that comment, which is in this very thread (!), I just don't see why you'd want to do that.

[elblanco → JoachimSchipper]

Which part doesn't make sense, running intermediate byte-code in a VM, or using LLVM to target Parrot? If it's the former, I'm not sure I can persuade you in this thread if a decade of enterprise software can't do that, if it's the latter, then I can see that also.