On Fri, 25 Nov 2005, Thomas Grill wrote:
what i'm (slowly) working on is an interface between PD and the CLR (common language runtime), also known as .NET or mono. This is a kind of bytecode assembly (related to Java bytecode) which can be targetted from different programming languages, like C#, C++/CLI, Java#, IronPython, VisualBasic, DotLisp. With the associated JIT-Compiler these portable executables can be quite fast, much faster than current Python or ruby, and they can cooperate easily, independently of the source language used. It's forseeable that not all scripting languages will support the CLI (common language infrastructure), but a growing number does.
Also, Pascal Gauthier from Montréal has made one for Java/JVM and I'm trying to get him to release his stuff. In particular I want him to present his JNI external at PureData Montréal #15, on December 10.
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