Something different: Erlang / Elixir on JVM

[Steve Beisner]

Something completely different:

    http://erjang.org/

Who knows if this will go anywhere, but in any case it's interesting

that the erlang eco-system is garnering more attention.

[Alex Shneyderman]

this might be relevant to your link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuVC2TE748w

[gvim]

On 26/07/2014 14:21, Steve Beisner wrote:
> Something completely different:

> http://erjang.org/ <http://erjang.org/>

> Who knows if this will go anywhere, but in any case it's interesting
> that the erlang eco-system is garnering more attention.

Erjang isn't exactly new, as far as I'm aware, and without any expertise
in VMs my first reaction to Erjang was "Why"? If the Erlang VM is
optimised for Erlang functional programming, pattern matching and OTP
how is Erlang going to benefit from an object-oriented bytecode
environment like the JVM? I mean, can you imagine Java implemented on
the Erlang VM? Pretty pointless, I would have thought, if it's even doable.

gvim

[Steve Beisner]

I generally don't view "play" as "pointless".  I think this qualifies as

"play": I doubt very much that anyone thinks that the JVM can do as

good a job as the Erlang VM at hosting Erlang.

That said, anything that increases the number of people that become 

familiar with Erlang, Elixir, etc. is potentially a good thing.

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[Jim Menard]

One reason why: it's easier to sneak JVM languages into a lot of
companies. "It's just a jar file that gets run like all our other Java
apps."

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[Alexei Sholik]

But then you're sneaking back a JVM lang, not Erlang :) For it to be Erlang, it has to run on an Erlang VM.

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Alexei Sholik