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IBM Open Sources Their Own JVM/JDK As Eclipse OpenJ9 (eclipse.org)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the just-in-time dept.

IBM has open sourced a "high performance, scalable virtual machine" with "a great pedigree... [it's] at the core of many IBM enterprise software products." Slashdot reader dxb1230 writes: IBM has open sourced their JDK/JVM implementation named J9 as OpenJ9. The community now has an alternative implementation of Java which has been well tested on enterprise workloads and hardware. This unlike, OpenJDK, has all the bells and whistles like jit.

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  1. Why Java? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not intended as a troll, but a sincere question of a C-veteran of soon 20 years: why do people use Java?

    To block the only apology I've heard so far - "portability": way back when (10 years or so?) Java-applications were a major PITA to install, as they needed Java version X.Y.Z; every last digit significant. It seems that these days applications have fixed this by shipping the entire Java run-time in the installation package. So the applications are not portable even between the language implementations.

    Why not to use Java? The GUI UX seems to be stuck in the 1990's, and language has (at least to me) something offputting in its syntax.

    So why do you choose java for your next project?