Building a Java Virtual Machine Part 2: A method to the madness

Part 2 of a series discussing the joys and pitfalls (mostly pitfalls) of hacking together a minimal JVM in Javascript. The live code base — a very rough work in progress! — is on GitHub. Subscribe for further updates! ;-)

I finished last article by walking through the simple Java class file for Hello World. This time I’m going to talk more about Javascript, and what structures are needed for using that class data.

I called my project Kopiluwak. All self-respecting Java-adjacent projects use stupid…