Let’s reinvent java bytecode but… different

  • XTL
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    3 months ago

    No, Java was always a creeping horror. The VM is one of its less bad features.

    Yes it has been steadily getting worse, though.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      less bad

      Hum, no. The idea of a fast intermediate representation that is still high-level enough to allow for runtime optimizations and portability is GREAT. It’s not “less bad”.

      But, of course, everything else destroys the language. A language agnostic WASM is taking that one really great part, and dropping everything else.