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>> why do you even care what platform it runs on? Isn't that what the JVM/wasm solved?
by singularity2001 9y ago
>> why do you even care what platform it runs on?
Isn't that what the JVM/wasm solved?
- zeveb 9y agoWell, yes — the problem is that the JVM was too big and too platform-independent. We don't want JVM everywhere; really, we want POSIX-everywhere. The JVM's also this weird level of statically-typed hyper-extensibility — it's Greenspun's Tenth Law in action, and the result is typically in really terrible taste. The end result is a JVM which is really, really impressive, but appallingly ugly.
- pjmlp 9y agoThanks to the JVM, I stopped caring about POSIX. Not everyone is found of it. Same applies to any other language with rich libraries.
- pjmlp 9y agoYes. JEE application servers already offer all the benefits of containers and OS independence.