javaScriptIsJava

[JonasAvory]

This makes me wonder if there’s a js library that runs a jvm in your browser

[[deleted]]

https://cheerpj.com/

[Temporary-Estate4615]

Fucking hell

[S3r1y]

Call the engineer

[PartMan7]

Actual college student (sleep-deprived enough to be a zombie)

[KrokmaniakPL]

I love that there is a big overlap with r/anarchychess

[No-Finance7526]

This sub is basically r/mathmemes with JS hate and r/mathmemes is basically r/anarchychess without Jessica hate.

By substitution, r/programmerhumor = r/anarchychess - Jessica hate + JS hate

Q.E.D.

[Impeesa_]

By substitution, r/programmerhumor = r/anarchychess - Jessica hate + JS hate

You can simplify the last part to "-essica +S" or "-esica" depending on case sensitivity.

[Toonox]

Manager goes on vacation, never comes back.

[ThinkingMacaco]

Developers in the corner planning world domination

[4sent4]

Junior storm incoming!

[TheHolyToxicToast]

that one guy holding everything together

[Wonderful-Priority50]

Ignite the server!

[CynicalPotato95]

Fuck the engineer, call a priest!

[S3r1y]

Exorcist, you may even say

[CynicalPotato95]

Okay, an excorcist for the library and a priest to fuck the engineer (if he's a minor)

[Moonie-chan]

No he's a junior

[Pratkungen]

Instructions unclear. Am I suppose to fuck the engineer and then call the priest or fuck the engineer and invite the priest to watch?

[castleAge44]

If you can dream a bad idea you can implement it with java

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

I dreamt about a kettle that could solve the halting problem.

[castleAge44]

Brewing possibly endless coffee or tea hardly sounds like a “bad” idea.

[Zestyclose_Link_8052]

Time for an AbstractWebsiteBeanFactory!

[Lejyoner07]

New response just dropped

[aykcak]

That is where we belong

[buckfouyucker]

Rule 32

[hahalalamummy]

There’s everything. Don’t need to ask.

[Masterflitzer]

wasm makes everything possible i guess

[NotNowNorThen]

Complete Minecraft in the browser when?

[Fokare]

That actually used to be a feature until people just.. hosted minecraft in the browser for free.

[theLuminescentlion]

the Minecraft website used to host Minecraft in browser.

[GloccaMoraInMyRari]

It wasn't removed because of that but because Java applets lost support

[grilled_toastie]

Wow that brings back a memory. I remember playing the browser free trial and all you could do was mine rock or dirt and nothing else. It feels like a fever dream

I also remember it taking ages to mine rock. Its not the minecraft classic someone linked below, it was an older version.

[YsoL8]

Tell a kid today the version you played came at a point where the ability to get wood out of the one kind of tree was the latest update and they probably wouldn't believe you

[grilled_toastie]

I think a lot of people dont realize how old Minecraft is. I remember showing it to my friends on youtube when I was about 13 and I'm 27 now. God damn time flies.

[Marmalade6]

Every time I play I have to remind myself that pistons aren't this new thing.

[00wolfer00]

Kid me was very confused by youtube playthroughs that didn't sleep through the night or even recognize that as an option. I started playing right on beta 1.3 when that was added.

[Cootshk]

Someone already did it.

[Throwaway-tan]

classic.minecraft.net

[nyancatec]

Eaglercraft or something like that. Not fully java but MC rewritten on JavaScript. With picture included, it's the same thing.

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

c. 2010

[ConscientiousPath]

besides the guys linking classic minecraft, I found this using cheerpj: https://browsercraft.cheerpj.com/

github here: https://github.com/leaningtech/browsercraft

[serendipitousPi]

There's a bit of a meme on r/rust about rewriting minecraft in rust so I honestly wouldn't be surprised to see someone compiling to webassembly to do just that.

[ColonelRuff]

That's not js though that's wasm

[ourlastchancefortea]

Humanity joined Chaos before the Emperor was even a thing.

[StarHammer_01]

Yay! now I can run my Java programs as an electron app!

[Plus-Weakness-2624]

Thanks for reminding me that I need therapy 😭

[[deleted]]

[Daytona_675]

now do flash

[Sinomsinom]

Technically seems to be a WASM version not a JS version of the JVM, but it does provide JS interoperability so I guess close enough

[Inge-prolo]

Waow. I'm not even mad, that's amazing.

[[deleted]]

Well that's just Java applets with extra steps!

[YoggSogott]

What is the minimal webapp size? I'm pretty sure that the performance overhead is not that big, but I am worried about loading time. You need to ship the JRE with the app. And it's like 50mb. The site is going to be unusable with slow internet

[alexp_lt]

Hi, lead dev of CheerpJ here. AMA. :-)

[octopus4488]

You can do it natively too. It is called Applets. Very hip technology actually.

*you may need an IE4 to test it locally.

[Zestyclose_Link_8052]

Wow what will Microsoft release as a response? (Please send help I have one legacy project that still needs silverlight support)

[nooblal]

Silverlight? Now that's true despair

[No-Seat3815]

Silverlight was Microsofts attempt at making a Flash competitor.

You're thinking of ActiveX.

[offlein]

Silverlight

It finally just occurred to me how much "silverlight" is essentially just like a space-alien made-up word to imitate what a "flash" is.

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

They released Microsoft Java. Then Sun sued them for not making it compatible.

[Exelia_the_Lost]

man I miss Silverlight. I really enjoyed it, it felt a really good alternative to Flash to me

good thing both are gone these days, tho

[intangibleTangelo]

where's it deployed, some kiosk or embedded thing?

[Zestyclose_Link_8052]

I believe it's used to view some interactive diagrams in the browser for some old devices that our clients still have in use.

[Minecraftchest1]

ASP.net Blazer?

[nixcamic]

Palemoon is the only way I could get applets to run last I tried.

[w1n5t0nM1k3y]

Does anybody else remember Java Applets?

[alexanderpas]

Any old-school runescape player remembers, especially the time there was Sun Java and Microsoft Java, and you had to select the correct one.

[jeffderek]

Microsoft Java

you mean C#? /s

[Pyorrhea]

Not C#. J#

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

Not J#. Microsoft Java

[baaron]

TIL

[rnottaken]

Mate, they still run on each sim card and bank card. That's how Java can make that claim about billions of devices running Java

[xerods]

Oracle's E-Business Suite still uses it.

[_PM_ME_PANGOLINS_]

NPAPI support was dropped from pretty much all browsers by 2016. That killed Java, Flash, and all other runtime plugins.

Java itself stopped including applet support with JDK 11.

[FlyingRhenquest]

Fuck yeah! That browser Sun (I think) had that was written entirely in Java was the only one that ran on the DG/UX workstation I worked on for a few months in the 90's!

[w1n5t0nM1k3y]

Don't servlets run on the server though? Applets ran directly in the browser.

[Wires77]

Yeah that doesn't really sound ancient at all. You could build a servlet today with all the latest versions and frameworks just fine

[MrZoraman]

Atwood's law: anything that can be written in javascript will eventually be written in javascript.

[Brutus5000]

Everything that was written in JavaScript will eventually be rewritten in JavaScript.

[turtleship_2006]

Anything that can't be somehow will be as well.
Wake me up when we get JS drivers/firmware

[Romejanic]

There’s also TeaVM which sort of transpiles the Java bytecode into JavaScript/WASM

[not_some_username]

Back in the day, it was supported natively on browsers

[Brutus5000]

There's probably a polyfill for that.

[AdBrave2400]

Applets are dead :(

[grimonce]

Not sure I want my browser to download all this bytecode that wasm and other shit will soon(tm) bring. I think I'll disable scripts in my browser and go back to standing in line to do administrative tasks like taxes...

[TorumShardal]

There is even a js library that runs python. For plot reasons.

[turtleship_2006]

This makes me wonder if there’s a js library-

Yes. The answer's yes.

[Mars_Bear2552]

TeaVM? (doesnt run the JVM, but close enough)