JVM -> Node

[Dan Mullins]

I really enjoyed Aaron Hoffman's talk on serverless programming with AWS and Azure. Unfortunately, the slow start-up times and heavy memory use makes a lot of JVM languages less than ideal. Has anyone thought about writing in a Scala/Clojure/Koitlin/etc, compiling to javascript, and running a Node.js version? 

Or is this too complicated and bordering on the dumbest thing you've heard today?

https://www.scala-js.org/

https://clojurescript.org/

https://github.com/JetBrains/kotlin/tree/master/js

Dan

[Shawn Garner]

I've seen an open source project cross compile to both scala and scala-js so there must be some demand.

I've not done anything with Scala-JS myself.

I wonder if http://www.scala-native.org would be a good fit for what you want.

Again never done anything with it myself though.

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[Nate Gordon]

It probably isn't a terrible idea, but why not just write for node directly or not use FaaS? What is the value you are trying to achieve apart from new hotness?

For the record, I usually default to the JVM to solve problems, but I've also decided that FaaS isn't for me when I really care about latency. I do think there are lots of uses of FaaS where latency isn't a big deal and the jvm wouldn't be a problem to use if it provided me a benefit otherwise.

But possibly the best answer is to just try it and see what happens? Compare running jvm scala and js scala and maybe the performance difference won't matter.

-Nate

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Dan Mullins <dmull...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Darrin Holst]

I don't think it's any more complicated than what we're already doing to get typescript and es6 to run in the browser and older versions of node. It's just another transpiler to put in your build step.

I'd give javascript a shot though. I heard node runs it just fine.

[S. David Pullara]

Would Scala Native be a useful alternative?

(Sean Mooney pointed this out to our team this morning.)