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Sun wanted to do the same thing in late 90ties - picoJAVA (embedded), microJava and UltraJava (VLIW workstations). Relegated to the dustbin of history.
by jaywee 3y ago
Sun wanted to do the same thing in late 90ties - picoJAVA (embedded), microJava and UltraJava (VLIW workstations).
Relegated to the dustbin of history.
- miki123211 3y agoJava Card still survives, though. I find Java Card pretty puzzling. You go from high-level interpreted languages on powerful servers, to Java and C++ on less powerful devices (like old phones for example), to almost exclusively C on Microcontrollers, and then back to Java again on cards. If. it makes sense to write Java code for a device small enough to draw power from radio waves, why aren't we doing that on microcontrollers?
- cpgxiii 3y agoThe Java Card environment is quite limited, though, due to resource limitations. There have been several more-or-less successful attempts at running higher-level languages on microcontrollers, e.g. .Net Micro Framework and CircuitPython. In all of these cases, though, you tend to struggle with all the native device behavior being described/intended by the vendor for use with C or C++ and the BSP for the higher level environment being an afterthought.
- funcDropShadow 3y agoJavaCard is used in smartcards e.g. for banking cards. There you want to have more language guarantees to avoid losing money.
- sillywalk 3y agoFYI UltraJava was renamed to MAJC[0] which IIRC was only used in Sun's XVR graphics cards. More from Ars (1999) https://archive.arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/majc/majc-1.html https://archive.arstechnica.com/cpu/4q99/majc/majc-1.html [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAJC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAJC