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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 15th May 2008 13:38 UTC, submitted by gonzo

On his blog, Miguel de Icaza announced the first public releases of Moonlight. Moonlight is the open source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, the company's Flash competitor. Moonlight is not yet free of bugs, though.

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RE[4]: Comment by satan666

by colinwalters on Thu 15th May 2008 17:53 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: Comment by satan666"

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Java is just Java, while .NET gives you C#, VB.NET (ick), IronPython, IronRuby, F#, RPL, Boo, and Nermle to name a few. While there are a small number of languages that target java bytecode (groovy for one), it's nowhere near as many as .NET.

http://www.robert-tolksdorf.de/vmlanguages.html

If you don't have enough time to read the list of over 200 different languages, Jython, JRuby, OCamlJava all exist (JRuby in particular is much farther along than IronRuby).

I too thought the JVM was only Java, until fairly recently when after OpenJDK 6 was announced I actually took the time to look around.

I think the lesson is that branding is important, and up until fairly recently the branding/marketing was all Java. But technically speaking, that's never been the case.

Edited 2008-05-15 17:55 UTC

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