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The Challenge of Cross-language Interoperability

2013; Association for Computing Machinery; Volume: 11; Issue: 10 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1145/2542661.2543971

1542-7749

David Chisnall,

Distributed systems and fault tolerance

Interoperability between languages has been a problem since the second programming language was invented. Solutions have ranged from language-independent object models such as COM (Component Object Model) and CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) to VMs (virtual machines) designed to integrate languages, such as JVM (Java Virtual Machine) and CLR (Common Language Runtime). With software becoming ever more complex and hardware less homogeneous, the likelihood of a single language being the correct tool for an entire program is lower than ever. As modern compilers become more modular, there is potential for a new generation of interesting solutions.