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A huge developer base and eco system? What specifically, can't be achieved in Java, that you think node is needed for?

• Scarbutt 6y ago
  Rendering Javascript.
  • SahAssar 6y ago
    There is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhino_(JavaScript_engine) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraalVM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraalVM. The latter of those is the second fastest js server runtime (es4x) according to techempower benchmarks: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=ph&test=db&l=zik0sf-f https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=... I haven't tried any of those, but saying the JVM can't run JS is not true.
    • Scarbutt 6y ago
      GraalVM is not a drop-in replacement for the JVM and Rhino is slow as molasses compared to V8.
      • vips7L 6y ago
        > GraalVM is not a drop-in replacement for the JVM As far as I understand, yes it is. GraalVM is just HotSpot with the graal jit compiler instead of C2.