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seanmcdirmid on Jan 13, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: A 30 minute introduction to Rust

Sun eventually did JavaOS, though I'm not sure how much of its code was Java.

IBM did Jikes RVM (old name: Jalapeno) which was mostly, if not purely Java. They handled the bootstrapping problem with some clever ahead-of-time compilation + meta-programming. Even their GC is implemented in Java.

twic on Jan 15, 2014 [–]

Jikes RVM was an absolutely amazing project. Superb work.

googles

Jikes RVM is an absolutely amazing project. Superb work. And i'm very glad to see it's still under somewhat active development!

http://jikesrvm.org/

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