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There was something long ago called GWT -- Google Web Toolkit -- that tried to make Java into that language by having it compile to JavaScript. It actually wor
by api 2y ago
There was something long ago called GWT -- Google Web Toolkit -- that tried to make Java into that language by having it compile to JavaScript.
It actually worked decently well, but was due to Java needlessly verbose.
WASM lets us run other languages efficiently in the browser but that just opens the field to a lot of languages, not one language to rule them all.
- actionfromafar 2y agoAlso GWT apps were pretty slow to load and start, and were very "app"-like as opposed to web-page like at a time when that was not as familiar as it is today. That's how I remember it anyway. And pretty heavy, developer wise, at a time when "update a file on the FTP" was still normal.