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Comment by tazjin | Hacker News Reader

I spent about 3 minutes trying to figure out what RoboVM and BugVM are. The RoboVM website has removed all explanations of the product and just says it's winding down, their Github page links to their website, BugVM links to RoboVM and has no information on their website, BugVM's Github links to their website.

Do they not WANT anyone to know what these things are?

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I'm not entirely sure how many people are actively contributing to BugVM. Perhaps it's gone a little under-loved in the last six months since forking. That might explain the lack of solid marketing and documentation. I imagine there's a chance that might change now.

RoboVM is a Java VM on iOS. It's used by some third party libraries such as libGDX - a cross platform Java game development framework which targets Android, iOS (via RoboVM) and others.

BugVM is a fork of RoboVM. In October 2015, RoboVM (a formerly open source project) announced they were making their project closed source proprietary, and as a result someone forked under BugVM.

Then I guess you didn't click on the documentation link at the top of the roboVM page.

Why RoboVM? We love mobile. We love the Java ecosystem. If you feel like we do, you will love RoboVM:

Create truly native mobile apps for iOS and Android. Use libraries, tools and languages from the vast Java ecosystem. Share code between platforms.

It seems to be an alternative to xamarin focused on Java or at least the JVM.

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