elegant chaos

Just read an interesting post from Gilad Bracha about adding more support to the JVM for dynamically typed languages.

I’ve been wondering for ages why the guys in the Dylan community haven’t attempted to target the JVM instead of the current approach which involves generating and then compiling C code.

Possibly invokedynamic may help… although it depends a bit on whether it supports generic method dispatch based on the type of any and all arguments. I don’t know enough about the guts of the Dylan implementation to be sure that this will help, but I hope so…