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JavaScript JVM Runs Java

Posted by timothy on from the build-a-weirder-mousetrap dept.

mikejuk writes "The world of software is made slightly crazy because of the huge flexibility within any computer language. Once you have absorbed the idea of a compiler written in the language it compiles, what else is there left to gawp at? But... a Java Virtual Machine JVM written in JavaScript seems like another level of insanity. A lone coder, Artur Ventura, has implemented a large part of the standard JVM using JavaScript and you can check the code out on Github. Notice this isn't a Java to JavaScript translator but a real JVM that runs byte code. This means it could run any language that compiles to byte code." Bonus: on Ventura's website is a set of visual notes from a talk he gave titled "My Language Is Better Than Yours."

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  1. Re:Javaception by linuxgeek64 · · Score: 5, Informative

    It doesn't implement that much of the standard JVM.

  2. Really? by aglider · · Score: 5, Informative

    This

    This means it could run any language that compiles to byte code.

    shoud read as
      This means it could run any language that compiles to Java byte code.

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