Comments on: Polyglott Programming On The AVM2

By: Miller Medeiros

Miller Medeiros — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 06:37:52 +0000

what about garbage collection and compilation time? on Rhino [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_%28JavaScript_engine] they stopped using JVM because of both reasons. cheers.

By: joa

joa — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:42:44 +0000

You have a very valid point David. There are two options in order to solve the issue you are talking about:
- Debug in the language of your choice before converting (if possible)
- IDE features which can be implemented but require (a lot of) work.

Converting the debug information is possible. But one has to make use of it of course.

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By: David Arno

David Arno — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:25:25 +0000

The killer flaw to such ideas is debugging. Can figure out how to get the debug info it the SWF, so that it maps back to the Scala etc code? Then can you devise a debugger that understands the original language and supports breakpoints, variable value inspection etc? Without these, such language converts are little use, unless you never need to debug your code of course…

By: joa

joa — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:25:38 +0000

Andy Li: Possible but problematic since AcitonScript is not statically typed and has some features that Java does not support like runtime namespaces. I also do not think it would be that useful.

By: James Ward

James Ward — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:56:03 +0000

Awesome stuff Joa! Can’t wait to be writing Scala on both sides of the wire. :)

By: Andy Li

Andy Li — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:29:55 +0000

That’s exciting!

What about a revise, compiles AVM bytecode to JVM bytecode? Although I don’t know if it will be useful :P

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