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The only advantage I can think of to putting the JVM in a browser is if you intend to run java code. (God, I hope not). It's not like they're lighting the world

The only advantage I can think of to putting the JVM in a browser is if you intend to run java code. (God, I hope not). It's not like they're lighting the world on fire with their performance running dynamic languages. (I mean, it's fine, but it's nothing special) Besides, we already saw what java-in-the-browser looks like, and it was a huge failure.

pron 11y ago
> It's not like they're lighting the world on fire with their performance running dynamic languages. (I mean, it's fine, but it's nothing special) Yes, they pretty much are[1], and yes, it is[2]. Their 80 kLOC JS compiler is on par with V8, they're matching or beating PyPy when running Python, and their Ruby performance is out of this world. The downside, though, is that it has a long warmup time, which makes it unsuitable for web pages. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUo3BFMwQFo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUo3BFMwQFo [2]: https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/619885182104043520 https://twitter.com/ChrisGSeaton/status/619885182104043520