Google Go for Java platform?

java go jvm jvm-languages
Alf picture Alf · Aug 9, 2012 · Viewed 10.9k times · Source

JVM provides great performance - it's on the one hand. Golang sounds like a new paradigm and extremely productive - on the other hand. If we could bring together the best of two worlds - JVM performance and golang productivity - we could get a lot of benefits. Does anyone know any project that provides golang implementation in java?

Answer

Peter Lawrey picture Peter Lawrey · Aug 9, 2012

A quick search came up with

http://code.google.com/p/jgo/

This link suggest it's the main or only effort.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages

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