Do you have any plans on working with JavaSoft toward any common goals?
PW: We are working with JavaSoft, at least peripherally. I went to Java One in San Francisco and met with Alan Baratz . We’ve been having a dialogue ever since. JDJ: Do you see Inferno as being a more developed environment than Java? RP: That’s fair. I think that some of the technical differences may make it more interesting than Java. Sean, who worked on the compiler for Limbo, has a different take on that. SD: Our virtual machine, Dis, was designed to be architecturally neutral and, more importantly, language neutral. We plan on porting other languages to our operating systems. Like Phil said, there has already been work on porting Java byte code and there are other people here interested in porting functional languages to Dis and/or writing a C compiler for Dis. We plan on porting more language environments on top of our internal API. JDJ: Would you say that Java is evolving toward Inferno? RP: Like Phil said earlier, Java started off being hyped as an applet language for browsers a
