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Or maybe that it should be replaced in the browser with something better as well?
by jdboyd 8d ago
Or maybe that it should be replaced in the browser with something better as well?
- aeve890 8d agoMS had VBS. Just sayin
- lmz 8d agoMS(IE) had ActiveScript, of which VBS was just one implementation (although it was the bundled one that always existed). People have built integrations for stuff like Tcl, Python, or Perl, making them available to the browser. Example: https://perlhacks.com/2026/07/remember-perlscript-when-internet-explorer-could-run-perl/ https://perlhacks.com/2026/07/remember-perlscript-when-inter...
- phlogisticfugu 8d ago1990s calling: there's a language which is strongly typed, and will compile to bytecode that runs both on your server and in your browser as a sort of universal binary. It's named after a type of coffee...
- mitxela 7d agoJavaScript? WASM? Browsers don't run Java any more