Fast, Open Alternative to Java

Posted by michael on Friday September 14, 2001 @02:46PM from the better-mousetrap dept.

DrInequality writes: "For those of you out there who admire the portability of Java but want something faster or open source, the answer to your prayers is finally here. The Internet Virtual Machine is open source, fast and supports C, C++, Java and ObjectiveC. There are some cool demos for Linux (requires Redhat 6.0 or above, and OpenGL 1.2 or Mesa 3.41) here (1.5MB) and for Windows (requires glut32.dll, here) here (1.5MB)." We mentioned this last year; perhaps it has improved. I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in a language as portable as Java but speedier.

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What about C#? by tshak · 2001-09-14 15:12 · Score: 3, Offtopic

What about C#? Many Java and anti-Java advocates have come to a common ground that C# is a great language. It's fully OO and very easy to code in. MS has submitted the spec to the ECMA, so isn't this possible?

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