On: Sorry Java, Write Once Run Anywhere (WORA) Is Now JavaScript

[pjmlp]

Yes, these are the native code compilers for Java, able to target Apple mobile platforms.

https://www.codenameone.com/

https://gluonhq.com/products/mobile/

https://github.com/MobiVM/robovm

[fingerlocks → pjmlp]

These look like ahead-of-time compilers using llvm with obj-c bindings. This is not Java running on iOS any more than than the lengths people have gone to make Rust run on iOS.

The JVM doesn’t exist on iOS.

[pjmlp → fingerlocks]

Sure it does, compiled to native code ahead of time.

People have to start learning not to mix languages with implementations.

[fingerlocks → pjmlp]

This is pedantry. Clearly you acknowledge these frameworks aren't write-once-run-anywhere in the same spirit as the conversation we're having. This same trick can be performed on a number of languages that don't claim to be WORA.

[pjmlp → fingerlocks]

Those frameworks take JVM bytecode and convert it into machine language.

Looks WORA to me.

[fingerlocks → pjmlp]

If that’s all it takes, I’m struggling to think of a language that isn’t WORA.