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by KMag 3553 days ago
There has also been gcj for a long time, but default toolchains matter a lot.
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calpaterson 3553 days ago
I seem to recall that GCJ had a lot of limitations back in the day - you couldn't use the same standard library, it didn't support newer language features, etc. Wouldn't surprise me if even now GCJ had poor integrations with IDEs and other essential tools to make Java livable.
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pjmlp 3553 days ago
GCJ was abandoned in 2009 as the majority of its devs left to either work on Eclipse's compiler or early OpenJDK days.

It is still available on gcc, because of its unit tests. Some gcc code paths are only used by gcj.

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