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Comment by peter_l_downs | Hacker News Reader

Prolly the biggest advantage of the JVM in my opinion was pointed out by "iv...@ivan.net.nz":

    > The one thing I like about the jvm is that I can compile 
    > and package code on one platform and deploy to another 
    > without worrying about anything but the fact that the jvm 
    > is installed.

Solves so many headaches!

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Yes, and for how good Haskell is as a LANGUAGE, it sucks at this very important feature (assuming you want to use a 3rd party library).

There's always Frege:

https://github.com/Frege/frege

But it's definitely a work in progress.

Yes, I agree that uberjars are a great thing when it comes to the JVM ecosystem. However, with the advent of projects like docker, I can't help but think that this reasoning is now obsolete. You can write your app in Go, Rust or Haskell and deploy it inside a container that you provide. You control the environment that it runs in.

Sun used to use the catchy slogan "write once, run anywhere" to refer to this property...

While it's not the same thing, 'go' can compile for multiple platforms, and then you can deploy appropriate binaries on another OS as long as 'go' is installed.

> and then you can deploy appropriate binaries on another OS as long as 'go' is installed.

Nope. Go does not need to be installed for a binary produced by the `gc` compiler to run.

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