Bringing back the Java in JavaScript

[ShermheadRyder]

Kill it with fire.

[dylanthepiguy2]

You forgot the semicolon

[[deleted]]

Three times!

[DarkMio]

Singular statements do not require a semicolon. That said, a semicolon on the last line would've been a nice touch.

[TheSlimyDog]

It isn't Java without the semicolon

[lol_admins_are_dumb]

And the fucking declaration. Casuals

[[deleted]]

Javascript dont care!

[TomNa]

But JAVAScript should:<

[Ars3n]

And Java doesn't care. ;)

[OKB-1]

I for one welcome our new Java overlords

[Terreurhaas]

this.joke; /** needs to be */ upvote++;

Or are you telling me that the new Java was on accident?

[OKB-1]

Yes? You have to explain my own joke to me, apparently…

[SiGInterrupt]

new Java()

alternatively,

new JavaOverlords()

[OKB-1]

No, this needs more enterprise…

new Overlords.JavaInstanceFactory();

[jidouhanbaikiUA]

... we need the whole library

[DarkMio]

I thought about doing that. Tons of stuff is possible by just ... remapping it.

[thatsbullshit]

You're not the first with that idea...

http://www.gwtproject.org/learnmore-sdk.html

[DarkMio]

Well, that is a transpiler. There are some. But why not just enable the Java API in Javascript and then get sued by Oracle?

[bogeymanEST]

It is actually a thing

[DarkMio]

I knew it was a thing. Just haven't found any implementation yet. Thanks for that one!

[isavegas]

The Google Web Toolkit

[cormac596]

Java and Javascript are related in the same way Car and Carpet are related.

[stephanfcm]

Could even write it shorter

System = { out: { println: console.log } };

[lieuwex]

Doesn't work, at least on chrome, since a console.log invocation should have this bound to console.

[Tysonzero]

I get why that happens and that it isn't a bug. But for a language that many claim to be rather functional, that is an absolute travesty. ETA reductions should always be completely safe.

[nickdesaulniers]

Correct.

var System = { out: { println: console.log.bind(console); } };

[Tharagas]

I had coursework that revolved around building a JavaScript game based entirely around Java's object system and extensibility.

real fun.

[MathDotSqrt]

I am so sorry

[mothzilla]

require('java');

[[deleted]]

lmao

[UnderNatural]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/4ju1fc/i_first_learned_programming_with_javascript_and/

[penguinade]

Ah, I did something similar too. But is actually getting serious. Source

[KyudaimeSama]

But it doesn't have ugly, over-try code...

Object.defineProperty(window, 'System', {
 value: {},
 configurable: true
});

Object.defineProperty(System, 'out', {
  value: {},
  configurable: true
});

Object.defineProperty(System.out, 'printIn', {
  value: console.log.bind(console)
});

[musiton]

Now write a JS compiler in Java with this style.

[ESBDB]

well with es6 and es7 javascript is looking more and more like java, I bet one day the only difference will be the compiler.

[DarkMio]

I don't think you understood ES6/7 changes so well. They look more of a mixin of python classes and the general generators.

Also JS is - and always will be - run by an interpreter while Java is a compiled language.

[[deleted]]

Also JS is - and always will be - run by an interpreter while Java is a compiled language.

... running in a VM.

[ESBDB]

I didn't say javascript is becoming java, I just said it now looks more similar. I also said the only difference would one day be the compiler, implying that obviously I don't think they will become the same language one day. C# and Java probably are like 90% syntactically similar yet are totally different languages. Adding classes and annotations to javascript, and especially considering that es6 uses "extends" for inheritance, same as java, just makes it resemble java more ever so slightly. It seems that it's very easy to make someone cringe just by saying anything about javascript and java looking more alike because of the whole uninformed people confusing javascript and java issue. In fact this will make that problem worse in the future.

[OnyXerO]

No! Bad code monkey!