[Info-vax] redbean and the Actually Portable Executable

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 6/20/22 14:28, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 6/20/2022 12:02 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> On 2022-06-20 13:21:42 +0000, plugh said:
>>> "Compile and run on any x86 OS"...
>>
>> Very clever proof-of-concept work, though probably not going to be all 
>> that workable for production apps given the shifting foundations, and 
>> with increasing requirements for app security.
>>
>> As alternatives go, WebAssembly is a shade less hackish, for the folks 
>> that do need cross-platform portability: https://webassembly.org
>>
>> Apps can be built to JavaScript, too. As has been posted around here 
>> before: https://emscripten.org and https://bellard.org/jslinux/ and such.
>>
>> And apps running directly on JRE are yet another portable alternative, 
>> and those apps are rather more supportable.
>>
>> OpenVMS does have an older JRE available (based on OpenJDK 8), though 
>> no Wasm support and/or emscripten support and/or Wasmer 
>> https://wasmer.io support.
> 
> The reality is that in 2022 it is more normal to run the same
> stuff on any platform than not.

UCSD tried that back in 1974.  It was popular for about 6 or 7 years.

> 
> Scripts (Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Perl etc.), JVM
> languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy), and CLR
> languages (C#, VB.NET, F#) far outweigh the traditional
> native languages in usage.

Wonder how many of these will last that long and actually run on
anything other than the PC.  :-)

bill