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Probably the wrong meme format (programming.dev)

submitted 7 months ago by onlinepersona to c/programmer_humor

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Let's reinvent java bytecode but... different

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, Java was always a creeping horror. The VM is one of its less bad features.

Yes it has been steadily getting worse, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

less bad

Hum, no. The idea of a fast intermediate representation that is still high-level enough to allow for runtime optimizations and portability is GREAT. It's not "less bad".

But, of course, everything else destroys the language. A language agnostic WASM is taking that one really great part, and dropping everything else.