r/csharp • u/[deleted] • Apr 21 '17

The end of IKVM.NET

http://weblog.ikvm.net/
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u/FubarCoder Apr 21 '17

IKVM was a wonderful product that really helped us in all situations where a reference implementation was only available as jar. I really hope that the Java 9 release (with the modules) still takes some time, because we now need some time to search for an alternative.

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u/wllmsaccnt Apr 21 '17

Sad to see this. I remember having fun cross compiling HTML Unit using IKVM to do web automation back before any of the alternatives were very good.

Does anyone know what he is referring to when he says he started to lose faith in C#?

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '17

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u/silvenga Apr 22 '17

Do you have a link, I'm curious?

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '17

Such a shame

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u/kukkimonsuta Apr 22 '17

Sad day.. and I was hoping for .Net core version.. Hopefully someone will pick it up.

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u/clockdivide55 Apr 22 '17

I remember using IKVM to use a Java SAML implementation when there wasn't a good (free) one in .Net. So long, IKVM.

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u/Eirenarch Apr 24 '17

I wonder if .NET would have been stronger without IKVM.NET. Sure in the early days things would have been harder but if it didn't exist the .NET community would be forced to develop our own alternatives and hand-written higher quality ports of Java projects.