I fell in love with low-JS

Re:I fell in love with low-JS by TimTheTinker on Thursday May 05, 2022 @01:26AM (#31269853)

He/she turned out to be somewhat right, though the JVM is still quite a marvel of engineering, not to mention Truffle. And today Java is a far more capable language than in 2000.

I think the major difference between them and now for developers is that MIT/BSD/Apache-licensed, non-marketed languages and toolsets have gone mainstream.

In other words, developers today no longer are paying through the nose for the tools they use, unless those tools are cloud-based.

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Re:I fell in love with low-JS by travisgriggs on Thursday May 05, 2022 @12:17PM (#31275263)

> though the JVM is still quite a marvel of engineering

I'm aware that some of those "marvels" were technologies harvested from Self/Smalltalk. But I suspect that there have been some innovations in the JVM that I just have not kept up with. When you say it's a "marvel of engineering", which types of things are you thinking of?

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Re:I fell in love with low-JS by TimTheTinker on Thursday May 05, 2022 @06:01PM (#31278849)

I'm thinking specifically of the runtime performance optimizations. Hotspot is incredibly good at JIT generation of fast machine code.

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