[Info-vax] The Kotlin language, something for VMS as well?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/13/2017 8:25 AM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> Den 2017-07-13 kl. 14:02, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>> I don't know much about how LLVM works. But I thought it was
>> more of a compiler backend meaning that it would make it much
>> easier to produce a native language for a platform, but that
>> it would not really change the deployment model. But I may
>> be wrong.
> 
> I also thought that you need a language specific frontend to LLVM,
> much as you need for GEM.

Yes. But I suspect that is easier than the optimizing backend.

>                               Maybe LLVM can produce code runable
> in the JVM, no idea...

I think such work has been done. Not sure about details though.

Arne