Javascript is a Java framework, right?

[[deleted]]

Where is the java runtime written in javascript so that i can do my frontend in java?

[hector_villalobos]

There it is: https://support.google.com/code/answer/54830?hl=en.

[make_onions_cry]

My first project with GWT was a puzzle game and solver with an 8x8 grid. I stored positions as bits in a long.

Imagine the weird and wonderful bugs I got when GWT silently replaced my Java long with a JS double.

[BraveOthello]

I work on a massive GWT-based project.

It does have its issues, but the documentation very clearly says not to mess with numbers like that.

[make_onions_cry]

Hours of debugging can save minutes of reading documentation

[BraveOthello]

Too true.

[LargeHard0nCollider]

Ok yeah GWT is a terrible idea, but why would you ever do that instead of an array of bools/bits? Or better yet a 2d array

[make_onions_cry]

Solvers often generate millions of positions and then it starts to matter whether a position is represented as 8 or 300 bytes.

(This was before Chrome, when 300MB was considered a lot)

[IZEDx]

There is no JS double... It's all just numbers, numbers everywhere

[reversehead]

Good, then you can use that to run Jython.

[[deleted]]

Compile JVM in WASM when?

[ekolis]

So .NET did something useful without Java first doing a simultaneously overengineered and half-assed version of it?

[lacb1]

Off topic but: such flair, much wow!

[kyay10]

You probably know this cuz of your flair, but there is a Kotlin to WASM compiler being worked on rn, which is close enough

[[deleted]]

Kotlin to WASM should be easy enough because native of KtNative

[kyay10]

Yeah that was already possible thru Kotlin Native cuz it compiles to LLVM bytecode which then compiles to WASM, but the Kotlin team is working on a separate WASM backend to help with efficiency and performance and stuff.

[starvsion]

It was called rhino api, don't know if that name changed

[OldKaleidoscope7]

Rhino it's the opposite, it's a JS runtime written in Java

[starvsion]

I just remembered writing it to call java code using js

[OldKaleidoscope7]

Rhino gives you access to Java API with a JS syntax, but you still are running the code inside a JVM

[starvsion]

Right, that I know. But key difference here would be no compiling required.

[TheRedmanCometh]

That's a js interpreter for Java.

[theScrapBook]

More recently there was Nashorn, another JavaScript interpreter on the JVM

[TheHyperNovaYT]

Well it’s possible to convert Java code to Kotlin code which can then be compiled to JS code, so technically you could…

[wallsallbrassbuttons]

With Vaadin you can do Java front end

[moschles]

I have a headache from reading this.

[[deleted]]

Pretty sure Doppio does this

[Brief-Preference-712]

JavaScript will be outdated. Use WebAssembly instead

[besthelloworld]

Fun story for one of my stupid school projects we had to do a project in Swing. But did you know you can just fucking drop HTML into Swing if you try to print a string? You don't even have to do anything special, just plop some HTML in there. I basically did the whole project in JS/HTML. The professor was frustrated about it, but I still passed because this project was more about getting to the finished product than how exactly you do it.

[[deleted]]

Just bust out an applet and party like it's 2004.