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This is awesome! I would love to have JVM running on the WASM server side

I think it would be nice if there was documentation to explain how this works. Does it mean I can compile Java Bytecode to WASM?

The doc is being written. Until it is ready, I think it might be helpful to build a testcase such as xgen/test/compile/void.c, and debug the xocc.exe to see how it generate IR and lowest IR (wasm) from C-language AST tree.

That's my feeling. For me the only missing feature is WASM compilation. It's a shame that GraalVM native compilation is not targeting it.


Java is not heavy. You can use GraalVM native compilation, and it will be as light as Golang. Modern frameworks like Quarkus or Helidon are lightweight. Sure, if you are working for an old style Java shop stuck with Java 8 and JavaEE. That's another story...


"heavy" here is used in a very broad, general sense - that includes legacy, features, traditions, existing codebases, practices, reputation, community, libraries, ecosystem, mindset, infra, learning curve etc.

Having few examples that jumps out of the tradition doesn't make something as a whole suddenly different.


Would you choose Kotlin instead?


Kotlin would have definitely been a step up over Java purely for null safety.

In hindsight, RoR or Django would probably have been a better starting place considering their financial constraints (non-technical bootstrapping founders), but now that they are larger and more established Spring Boot seems a great framework given their current situation (the originally contracting code needed a major re-write anyway so I'm not sure that would have actually costed more time to go from RoR/Django -> Spring Boot)


Portugal have a minimum wage of 550 euros/month and an average wage of 850 euros/month or something like this. You can't compare absolute price.


Minimum wage is indeed about 550 euros a month (it’s 557 euros) but the average wage is more like 1130 euros monthly.

https://www.expatica.com/pt/employment/minimum-wage-in-portu...


That's gross average wage and it's inflated by Lisbon region that have crazy rents. One-bedroom flat costs 600/500 euros, more if it's in city center.


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