BicaVM: A JVM in JavaScript

A few years ago I found the Orto javascript runtime impressive. Seems more complete than BicaVM.<p><a href="http://ejohn.org/blog/running-java-in-javascript/" rel="nofollow">http://ejohn.org/blog/running-java-in-javascript/</a><p>Edit: Seems to be missing from the web. I'm pushing my local copy to github:<p><a href="https://github.com/robterrell/orto" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/robterrell/orto</a>

wow, atwood's law at work :) <a href="http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/all-programming-is-web-programming.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/08/all-programming-is-...</a>

I wonder if JVM bytecode would be a viable alternative intermediate language for compilation-to-javascript, as compared to the LLVM IR that projects like Emscripten use.

It's technically impressive, but I cannot see any real world application. A native Java runtime is heavily, heavily optimized for performance. Why would you run Java code through an interpreted/JITed JavaScript environment?<p>However - I can appreciate the technical challenge :)

As always, here is my perspective on Badass JS: <a href="http://badassjs.com/post/12648021003/bicavm-a-jvm-implementation-in-javascript" rel="nofollow">http://badassjs.com/post/12648021003/bicavm-a-jvm-implementa...</a> :)

applets 2.0 :)

This is backwards. It should be JavaScript syntax driving the JVM. Because Scala and Groovy are way to small for anyone to care, but the JVM is an awesome way for people to write play-anywhere applications. Java is one of those languages that could have been dynamically typed from the beginning, but they chose to force us to be static to be academic (or something...). People can do a lot more in JavaScript than in Java FASTER. Make a version of JavaScript that drives the JVM and you win. Perhaps you can even use one of the current ECMA Standards. They probably already have some 'make window' syntax defined somewhere.<p>If this project already exists please let me know. I have tons of uses for it. Thanks.