RE: The Weekly Pheromone VII I9 (try 2)

[Peter Liang]

I still don't understand why we cannot implement the kernel for Swarm in Java 
as well?

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    One final note: The kernel for Swarm will still be written in
Objective-C and we will still be using the GNU Gcc compiler, which we
will distribute with Swarm.  But, it will now be dependent on a Java
virtual machine and application environment instead of the X, Tcl/Tk,
and BLT dependencies.  While we are certain this will lead to OS
portability in the long run, it will still depend on the robustness
and efficiency of the Java environment used.  And it won't allow
remote execution of Swarms until we have integrated a remote execution
system into Swarm, itself.  But, it is certainly a step in the right
direction and we are very optimistic about it.

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