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do Java applets seem like they were way the hell ahead of their time? Pretty much. If Sun had made a decent plugin instead of expecting every browser to roll t
by orangecat 10y ago
do Java applets seem like they were way the hell ahead of their time?
Pretty much. If Sun had made a decent plugin instead of expecting every browser to roll their own VM, and if AWT had been a lot less buggy, it could have worked.
A unfathomable clusterfuck of module systems, transpilers, shit build tools and IDE support, crazy syntax gotchas, unholy and inconsistent exception handling systems.
Amen. It's ridiculous how many millions of engineer-hours have been spent trying to turn JS into a usable environment.
- wybiral 10y ago> Amen. It's ridiculous how many millions of engineer-hours have been spent trying to turn JS into a usable environment. It's not just JS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages
- throwawaysbdi 10y ago:) if you'll notice maybe half of those are other languages adapted to the JVM to make them more usable, which should say something is redeeming about the JVM at least.