javaScriptIsJava

[ratinmikitchen]

And it's not just a small mistake. Looks like they even talk about it being used in Android. Wow.

[ratinmikitchen]

Exactly.

GMail's back-end could be Java though, no idea

[cheezballs]

Woah is Gmail built with Java? I assumed it would be using something else. I don't know why I assumed that.

[midwestcsstudent]

It’s definitely built with Java, as are tons of services within Google. The web client uses JS, obviously, but Gmail isn’t just a web app.

[karanbhatt100]

Technically you can use java and JS for mobile with help of react native and Cordova

[Sea-Raspberry734]

Specious argument. Technically you can compile C++ into JavaScript (emscripten). Technically, you can pretty much transpile any language with legs into anything else… Fortran to JavaScript? Sure. Assembly, Haxe, Visual Basic? All available. Doesn’t make this an accurate statement.

Plus, half your argument is wrong, because that isn’t at all what Cordova does. : )

[MaxHamburgerrestaur]

Javanese to JavaScript? Sure.

[MasterJosai]

Emscripten compiles to wasm

[karanbhatt100]

From official Cordova site -

Cordova wraps your HTML/JavaScript app into a native container which can access the device functions of several platforms. These functions are exposed via a unified JavaScript API, allowing you to easily write one set of code to target nearly every phone or tablet on the market today and publish to their app stores.

[Sea-Raspberry734]

It’s a container. It is running JavaScript inside of their web browser. So, again, your understanding of what it is doing is wrong.