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Seeing code like that reminds me a lot of the J# days, when you basically had a Java 1.1 standard library implemented on top of .NET. I played with it a bit a few years back, even ported an AWT to it (imagine using AWT in C#): https://github.com/zdimension/awt2048_csharp/blob/master/Pro...

That's awesome, I did a similar thing with J# to port a basic Java library to C# a while ago.

Funnily enough, Cyberduck (the FTP, SSH, s3 mounting software for Mac/Windows) uses IKVM for their windows release.

For a while we used a variant of this in production to interop with an IBM iSeries from .NET. It was mostly about getting access to the DB2 connection, but we also had to run some programs on that system.

Whatever happened to, what was it called again, Grasshopper?