> > > I was thinking the vm is able to run more than one bytecode set. Why > couldn’t our vm support both Pharo and Java bytecodes?
Perhaps a simpler way is to make a translator from Java bytecodes -> Pharo (Sista) bytecodes. I believe that ikvm did something similar for .NET. The hardest part of this would actually be on parsing the .class files. Best regards, Ronie 2018-04-22 21:31 GMT-03:00 Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com>: > On 22/04/2018 11:03, henry wrote: > > I was thinking the vm is able to run more than one bytecode set. Why > > couldn’t our vm support both Pharo and Java bytecodes? > > Smaltallk/X provides that Smalltalk/Java code duality. > > But I think if Pharo ever pursues that path the best thing would be to > make it run in a VM such as Truffle/GraalVM [1]. A longest path maybe, > but you'll be able to piggyback on an existing community of VM > developers, and be able to interact not only with Java but it other > languages as well. > > [1] https://www.graalvm.org/ > > Regards! > > -- > Esteban A. Maringolo > >
