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LLVM helps, but it's not nearly enough. You need a standard library including network and GUI at least. (Edit: or statically-compile everything.) Java probably would have worked, but as I recall, Microsoft killed it.


Yes, that's true, it can't be done tomorrow, but I think it's the right approach. I'm not very familiar with Qt, but turning the more essential parts of it into a part of a LLVM standard library shouldn't take that many years, should it? And don't most standard libraries have networking now?

I'm curious how Microsoft killed Java. I assume you mean Java on the desktop?


Yeah, I mean "killed" specifically for writing web apps.

And by "library" maybe I meant "runtime"? I mean you just have to send the HTML and JS to the client, and everything else for running the app is already there. I guess now, you could send a Python file written to use QT and it would work equivalently on many platforms.


Ah, yeah, well, as long as Oracle is the steward of the most popular JVM I think we shouldn't let it run non-trusted code.

I was thinking more desktop (non-web) apps, really.




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