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I long for bytecode

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 18:19

I long for the day of bytecode, where the world of computing is not crushed under the corpse of ARM and x86. The fools can still get their shitty games, and the big studios ruled by demographic numbers can give it to them regardless of architecture. Even the OS would be mostly bytecode in this dream, only the interpreter is native, allowing for seamless ports of any system to any machine. Of course, us real programmers can use native code directly and leave the heathens to their ultra-portable Angry Birds.

I would even settle for the JVM to do this (though I would reject Java), but .NET's CLR is much nicer. Anything would be better than dealing with the outdated shitstain x86 and it's even more disgusting hack, x64, for another thirty years.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-28 19:44

>>8
The people get their shitty games and Powerpoint, and the actual architecture gets to advance without worrying about pissing off XASWAFQ Corp because it doesn't run their 20 year old accounting software. The OS implements the interpreter, then they can run any shit that they want without forcing the hardware designer to stick maintain compatibility with inferior products.
How the fuck does bytecode solve that problem in a way that fucking compilers don't? Platform agnosticism is half the reason programming languages even exist.

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