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Go development is getting more ambitious with the advent of a Java virtual machine written in Google's systems language.
Found in GitHub, the JVM is called jvm.go and is attributed to zxhO in Beijing. "The main purpose of this project is learning Go and JVM. So, the number one goal of the project is readability of code. The basic idea is just implement the core JVM and use rt.jar (from OpenJDK) as its class libraries."
Whether jvm.go ever gives Oracle's enterprise JVM technology a run for its money remains to be seen. "At this point, it looks more like an experiment, not anything close to being enterprise-ready," analyst Stephen O'Grady, of RedMonk, said in an email. "And by the creator's own admission, there's a long way to go between re-implementing a subset of the JVM and having something competitive. That said, it's an interesting project, certainly, and indicative of the kind of use Go is suitable for."
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