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Not in the browser, and no – webassembly doesn't count, otherwise you can say the same about Go and others.
by wiseowise 11mo ago
Not in the browser, and no – webassembly doesn't count, otherwise you can say the same about Go and others.
- amingilani 11mo agoWhy doesn’t wasm count?
- programmarchy 11mo agoCompile step makes things more complicated.
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- kevin_thibedeau 11mo agoAs opposed to minimized JS.
- Sammi 11mo agoSame problem, different orders of magnitude.
- mcpeepants 11mo agowhy would the tool minify the script it generated?
- wiseowise 11mo agoYou don’t need to minimize JS to be able to run it.
- creata 11mo agoWasm does count, and you can say the same about Go and others.
- Sammi 11mo agoJs just runs as is. Atwood's Law and all that.
- jazzypants 11mo agoSure, they run, but they can't touch the DOM or do much that's very interesting without JavaScript.
- fishmicrowaver 11mo agoMay I ask, what is this obsession with targeting the browser? I've also noticed a hatred of k8s here, and while I truly understand it, I'd take the complication of managing infrastructure over frontend fads any day.
- MasterScrat 11mo agoHN has a hatred of K8s? That’s new to me
- fishmicrowaver 11mo agoThis is a site for startups. They have no business running k8s, in fact, many of the lessons learned get passed on from graybeards to the younger generation along those lines. Perhaps I'm wrong! I'd love to talk shop somewhere.
- smt88 11mo agoK8s is used in many situations it shouldn't be, and a lot of HNers (including me) are bitter about having to deal with the resulting messes
- techscruggs 11mo agoI remember a time ...
- kreijstal 11mo agojava did run in the browser once.... it was embedded directly on the browser there was also nsapi you could also run java with js if you are brave enough https://kreijstal.github.io/java-tools/ https://kreijstal.github.io/java-tools/