Programming Language

[graeme]

Don't forget Android.

Good point! I was so focused on non Java languages on the JVM that I forgot that you can run the Java language on platforms other than the JVM (well, one anyway).


Incidentally, you can run a number of languages (including some that also run on the JVM) on the Android Dalvik VM. So if you run one of those on Dalvik you have incrementally replaced all of Java for your own code but can still call Androids Java APIs natively.

 

[wlanboy]

Good point! I was so focused on non Java languages on the JVM that I forgot that you can run the Java language on platforms other than the JVM (well, one anyway).

Yup. There are some VMs you won't expect:

• HaikuVM: Atmel AVRs (Arduino)
  
• IKVM: Java for Mono 
  
• JC: Java bytecode to C
  
• Mika VM: Embedded devices
  

 

[graeme]

Those are JVM implementations, not an alternative VM that runs Java - i.e. unlike Dalvik they run Java bytecode.

Interesting nonetheless: I had not heard of HaikuVM or Mika, as I am woefully ignorant about embedded stuff.

 

[HN-Matt]

Question from a disheartened PHP lifer, are there programming languages out there that don't limit the context to variants of 'echo' and 'print'?

 

[graeme]

@HN-Matt


I am not sure I understand the problem, but I am pretty sure the answer is yes.

 

[wlanboy]

Question from a disheartened PHP lifer, are there programming languages out there that don't limit the context to variants of 'echo' and 'print'?

Ruby

 

[UltratechHost]

PHP and Python is best

 

[greenwebpage]

JAVA AND PYTHON is the best

 

[3v-manager]

Only Python!
I have been with him since 2015 and have not yet seen anything better, at least to solve all my problems since then it has been enough. It's like a Swiss knife - you can do anything with it!!

 

[xHosts]

I have never learnt any langue fully, I have always been just the type of person to dabble between multiple languages as and when the learning bug bites.