creata 13 hours ago

Wasm does count, and you can say the same about Go and others.

  • jazzypants 10 hours ago

    Sure, they run, but they can't touch the DOM or do much that's very interesting without JavaScript.

  • Sammi 12 hours ago

    Js just runs as is. Atwood's Law and all that.

amingilani 13 hours ago

Why doesn’t wasm count?

fishmicrowaver 12 hours ago

May 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 11 hours ago

    HN has a hatred of K8s? That’s new to me

    • fishmicrowaver 11 hours ago

      This 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 8 hours ago

      K8s 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

kreijstal 11 hours ago

java 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/

  • TeaVMFan 9 hours ago

    Java runs in the browser currently, after a transpilation step (same as .ts):

    https://teavm.org/

    • gf000 an hour ago

      Also CheerpJ (with support for Swing UIs even), Closure compiler, and now GraalVM also has an experimental WasmGC target.