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I suspect that the JVM isn't an option since Oracle v Google showed that it's not as open as we'd hoped and nobody wants to try the same trick with .NET.
by EamonnMR 8y ago
I suspect that the JVM isn't an option since Oracle v Google showed that it's not as open as we'd hoped and nobody wants to try the same trick with .NET.
- pjmlp 8y agoSun and Oracle are pretty open to JVM vendors that don't play license games. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines#Active_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines#... Additionally, Google could have bought Sun, and decided to see how it would burn instead.
- imtringued 8y agoThe JVM isn't an option because java applets have failed. They are a massive security nightmare and they only run java, as opposed to everything (at least that's the promise of WASM).