Why Jython?

[thinktank2]

http://www.jython.org/

What do we see next.... Java on Python ?


I will tell these people...they are wasting their precious time.

[crptcblade]

Don't knock it...It's little leaps like this that led to peanut butter and jelly in the same jar. Revolutionary ideas need a starting point.

[thinktank2]

If this going to be the case in future...

Someone would be working on VB implementation in Java.

Someother would be working on a Java implementation in VB

A perl Implementation in Java

A Java implementation in perl..

ehh...for God's sake... let me remain sane.

[crptcblade]

Well, you know me, cross-breeds, imbreeds, and half-breeds = one hell of a party.

[barrk]

let me remain sane

Too late for most of us in here!

[kedaman]

damned, I have to release armageddon on them all soooon!

[parksie]

Originally posted by kedaman
damned, I have to release armageddon on them all soooon!

Yes Mr Sugii, get Squirrel out so we can all go and gloat that we actually understand it, and they're still doing their *shudder* OOP and functional programming

[HarryW]

Jython isn't such a bad idea. It's just written in Java instead of C, which means it will run on anything with a JVM or a proc with a JVM ISA (lots of things) without recompiling.

You may chuckle, but there is something called JPE which allows you to use Python modules in Java and Java modules in Python. It can be very useful, although there is a performance hit.

Why do you care anyway? Do you use Python?

[kedaman]

SQ will be out any minute!
and then other languages will have to suffer

[thinktank2]

Originally posted by HarryW
Jython isn't such a bad idea. It's just written in Java instead of C, which means it will run on anything with a JVM or a proc with a JVM ISA (lots of things) without recompiling.

Why do you care anyway? Do you use Python?

No..I am not saying Jython is a bad idea..but i say they are simply wasting their time. Python is a interpreted language and not a compiled one (as u know it). Python ....I believe is available in almost all platforms as java is. So why try to make a thing when such a thing is barely needed. Say, Platform x needs a python interpreter why not make something that doesn't need a Jvm to run it ? What about the perfomance issues ? Can JVM Python interpreter perfom better than the Python interpreter for that particular OS/Platform ? There are plenty of projects out there that needs developers. Some of the projects in Sourceforge for example are rarely active.

>>You may chuckle, but there is something called JPE which allows you to use Python modules in Java and Java modules in Python. It can be very useful, although there is a performance hit.

Exactly.. Do you mean the OS in question doesn't have a JVM or a python interpreter. Or you mean there are lack of developers in those languages who can effectively translate the program logic in each other language ??

>> Why do you care anyway? Do you use Python?

We do (at Work)

[thinktank2]

How about a JVM in python

[HarryW]

I use Python at work too, in fact 95% of my time at work is coding Python.

Python is actually a slightly higher-level language than Java. What you're saying is like saying "why program in Python when you can just use C?" - the standard Python project is written in C after all.

Since Jython is written in Java, it's completely and easily integrateable with a Java-based app. JPE is designed for use with C-Python.

Why use JPE when you could just port the code? Well that's all very well so long as you have the time to spend rewriting thousands of lines of code in a different language and re-testing it. In 'real life', that's not an option. We need the functionality the Java app offers, and we need it today or tomorrow, not next month. Why spend thousands on development time just to save a little performance? If you are really worried about performance you shouldn't be using Python in the first place.