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[ARCHIVED] PluotSorbet is a J2ME-compatible virtual machine written in JavaScript.

12 mentions on Hacker News by 8 people: 1 story, 11 comments · first 2015-06-22 · latest 2023-08-15

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…saw the writing on the wall when e2ee started showing up. > - we wrote a j2me VM in Javascript ( https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet ) to run the S40 version :) Perf was not good enough when dealing with java threads. Wow, that's…
comment by toast0 · 2023-08-15 · in Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider
…breaking them, and once e2ee was added they stopped working. - we wrote a j2me VM in Javascript ( https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet ) to run the S40 version :) Perf was not good enough when dealing with java threads. - we collaborated…
comment by fabrice_d · 2023-08-15 · in Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider
…they must have discontinued the J2ME implementation as feature phones became more and more rare. https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet
comment by fzzzy · 2022-11-26 · in Brendan Eich on the History of Firefox OS
…from "difficult but fun" to "mostly impossible". - wrote a JVM in JS to run the S40 version of WA ( https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet ). - partnered with a company specialized in bringing android apps to other OSes (they had Windows…
comment by fabrice_d · 2020-12-17 · in Firefox Was Always Enough
…was one of the top complaints or deal breakers for Firefox OS users in its initial markets. [1] https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet
comment by cpeterso · 2018-07-19 · in European Commission fines Google €4.34B in Android antitrust case
…one can achieve great things. There was this project for FirefoxOS to support J2ME apps -- https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet It would be great to have something like that for "nostalgic" reasons. Many feature phones' users remember…
comment by jan-kleks · 2018-02-28 · in KaiOS – A Smartphone Operating System
A similar project from Mozilla: https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet It was targeted toward running J2ME apps on FirefoxOS phones. With that project dead it's no longer under active development.
comment by mintplant · 2017-07-12 · in Doppio: JVM written in JavaScript
…lawyers were involved ;) You likely saw the other attempt using the J2ME-in-js implementation: https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet That was too slow and never shipped in commercial devices either.
comment by fabrice_d · 2017-06-21 · in My Ubuntu for mobile devices post-mortem analysis
…, https://github.com/decatur/j2js-compiler , https://github.com/plasma-umass/doppio , https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet etc)
comment by muizelaar · 2017-03-16 · in Why WebAssembly Is Faster Than Asm.js
…for a number of reasons. Also, j2me.js was renamed "PluotSorbet", due to trademark concerns: https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet
comment by cpeterso · 2017-03-03 · in The Story of Firefox OS
…on a "j2me.js" VM called PluotSorbet. The primary use case was to host J2ME apps on Firefox OS. https://github.com/mozilla/pluotsorbet
comment by cpeterso · 2016-01-28 · in Oracle deprecating Java applets in Java 9
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PluotSorbet – A J2ME-Compatible VM Written in JavaScript
story by SunboX · 2015-06-22 · 6 comments