And building Twitter [1], and big-data next-generation databases [2], and android apps, and desktop apps, and big data [3], and as a platform for new languages (Clojure, Scala, Frege), and many more applications.
Really, the JVM can be used for anything that _computers_ can be used for, and it does so in a way that the code is runnable across all major platforms and still maintains a top-5 language performance spot, even beating C/C++ in some specific cases.
Why do you feel that the JVM is limited in its applications as a development platform?
Really, the JVM can be used for anything that _computers_ can be used for, and it does so in a way that the code is runnable across all major platforms and still maintains a top-5 language performance spot, even beating C/C++ in some specific cases.
Why do you feel that the JVM is limited in its applications as a development platform?
[1] http://blog.redfin.com/devblog/2010/05/how_and_why_twitter_u... [2] http://www.datomic.com/about.html [3] http://hadoop.apache.org/