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Ignore reality if you want to. It's just never going to happen. Java had its chance. Java had every possible chance. Java had the advantage of making a deal with Netscape to purposefully cripple javascript to help promote Java. Sun tried for a decade, trying and trying to make Java the defacto web application language. Sun tried and tried to put its java VM in the browsers. And it lost. Java lost. Javascript won. End game. Being in denial about it won't change it. Trying it again isn't going to change the undeniable reasons that Java did in fact lose. Insisting that a VM is the best way to make web apps won't change the reality that we explored for years and years that it just simply isn't. It didn't work. It can't work.

Get over it already.



here is what is more likely to happen.

Brendan Eich:

"If I wanted a safe intermediate form, I would look at arithmetic coding techniques that self-verify (so that you can't express other than well-formed programs), not bytecode and not JS source. It's IMHO very unlikely that TC39 will standardize a bytecode for JS. An AST encoding has better chances and better properties including self- verification and view-source-ry."


look, Javascript creator Brendan Eich giving a whole talk on why this won't happen. http://www.slideshare.net/BrendanEich/splash-9915475


Brendan Eich talking about why javascript will never be replaced? That's like Bill Gates giving a talk on why Windows will never be replaced.




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