TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to JavaScript or WebAssembly

Re:TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to Java... by C14L on Friday January 05, 2018 @03:30AM (#16077357)

The browser would cache that automatically. And in many cases, you'd probably use a Service Worker to implement your own custom cache and "install" the application locally in the browser, so that is usable offline and only version updates are downloaded in the background.

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Re:TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to Java... by oblio on Friday January 05, 2018 @03:50AM (#16077426)

Weren't applets also cached?

To be honest, I think that hate of applets comes from a time when 56kbps download speeds were considered very high, the average CPU had 1 core at 200 Mhz and the average webpage weighed 20k and executed 5-10 lines of Javascript.

I haven't used applets in the time, but if the user experience would be improved (nice looking UI, respecting modern UX conventions, etc.), I imagine your average applet from circa 1999 would run circles around Gmail, for example :)

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Re:TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to Java... by mping on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:48AM (#16077617)

Not only that, swing applets are notoriously fugly. One reason electron is successful is because it kinda looks like native. Swing Look and Feels all seem alien.

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Re:TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to Java... by oblio on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:58AM (#16077668)

Swing can be styled, it's that not a lot of people really bothered. Jetbrains products use Swing and they're decent.

Not amazing, but decent.

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