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From: Johan Grande <johan.grande@inria.fr>
To: Philippe Veber <philippe.veber@gmail.com>
Cc: caml users <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] A js_of_ocaml equivalent for the JVM?
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:45:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5A41C6.10505@inria.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOOOohR1ToCsVqcZvuQPOGba2ZviU7e4aXLiX2ctzXJ=wm-6NQ@mail.gmail.com>

Le 09/03/2012 18:12, Philippe Veber a écrit :
> Dear camlers,
> I used js_of_ocaml several times and was really stunned of how clever
> (notably because writing interfaces boils down to writing types) and
> efficient this approach is. Would a similar thing work for the JVM, that
> is a compiler from ocaml bytecode to java bytecode? I guess it wouldn't
> provide a full interoperability with java, in the sense that creating or
> extending classes may not be possible (well, why not after all?).
> However, being able to run an ocaml program on the JVM reusing existing
> java libraries would be so useful already!
>
> Are there known obstacles to this? Has anyone tried something in this
> direction? Would there be a chance to support multicore programming that
> way? I hope these are not silly questions (sorry if they are!)

http://ocamljava.x9c.fr

(I never tried it myself.)

-- 
Johan

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-09 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-09 17:12 Philippe Veber
2012-03-09 17:45 ` Johan Grande [this message]
2012-03-09 18:05   ` forum
2012-03-12 16:05     ` Philippe Veber
2012-03-13 16:55     ` Richard W.M. Jones

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