| ▲ | LinguaBrowse 4 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
> I thought over the last decade we let other languages into the browser Not so much! Rhino was an effort to rewrite Netscape Navigator in Java, and I expect that if that rewrite had taken off, Java might've gained a foothold (though indeed, there were Java applets for a time). There were also Flash apps, and of course there are some significant games based on WebAssembly and low-level graphics APIs. But ultimately JavaScript works well for GUI because it is so dynamic, allowing you to be less rigid in how you architect things. And by being a scripting language, it's super quick to iterate on. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | breve 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
> JavaScript works well for GUI because it is so dynamic Amazon moved to WebAssembly for their Prime Video application for both higher and less variable performance: https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-... | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hajile 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||
Java was never going to replace JS in a practical way because of security and the Java JIT taking forever to load and warm up. | |||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | righthand 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||
I was being sarcastic in my post. I find bragging about Javascript as a flourishing UI language omitting quite a bit about why. | |||||||||||||||||
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