On: One VM to Rule Them All

[toolslive]

well, to stop people from panicking; in this context "All" means just a few.

It seems they have been building their own CLR.

[pjmlp → toolslive]

No, the idea is to eventually integrate the work started with Maxime at Sun and replace the JIT developed in C++ by a Java based one.

This work has been discussed for possible integration into the standard JDK in a post Java 8 version, as part of project Graal.

[trailfox → toolslive]

Why would people "panic" if Oracle builds them a better VM or the tools to build a better Ruby/Python/Java VM?

It's quite different to the CLR. The CLR lets you implement any language you like, as long as it can basically be mapped to C# constructs, not that different from the JVM.

What Snoracle is working on is more generic with much higher performance.

[darklajid → trailfox]

The CLR supports things that C# the language doesn't. C# isn't the common denominator here, it's just one of the languages running on the CLR (and probably? the most well-known). VB.Net and F# are equals, not to mention all the non-MS languages that exist.

C# isn't special and doesn't represent the CLR's potential. It certainly might drive the evolution of the CLR to a point.