Re:Oracle VP: “We have a strategy to run Java inside a Javas...
by azakai on Sunday December 12, 2010 @05:27PM
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> Umm...are there any reasons, other than the JVM, to use Java? I'd much rather write plain old JS (or even better, CoffeeScript) than Java any day.
Existing code. I agree that writing JavaScript is better in almost all cases, but there is a lot of existing code out there and not just in Java but C, C++, and other languages. Being able to run that on the web, anywhere, would be huge.
Existing code. I agree that writing JavaScript is better in almost all cases, but there is a lot of existing code out there and not just in Java but C, C++, and other languages. Being able to run that on the web, anywhere, would be huge.