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by kaba0 1299 days ago
GraalVM’s polyglot execution does solve this problem, it can even optimize across language barriers. (But it runs native languages as LLVM “bitcode” basically, not natively)
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merb 1299 days ago
GraalVM will Not succeed, because every language needs Tour be reimplemented in graal, in wasm every language just needs a wasm Target. Also Java is really slow Boy adding a wasm Target. Most languages have a way to run on a wasm engine.
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kaba0 1299 days ago
They have to be implemented as interpreters only though.

> Most languages have a way to run on a wasm engine

But it is basically useless for managed languages that as of yet has to bring their runtimes as well.

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int_19h 1299 days ago
It's not useless, it's just a lower layer in the stack. Decoupling high-level managed runtimes from underlying low-level bytecode makes a lot of sense. Delivery is another question, and we'll probably solve that by caching common runtimes.
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