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It is a cool technology, but with the rise of docker (and related technologies), running things cross platform has less importance than it once did. I'm not sa
by ByteJockey 6y ago
It is a cool technology, but with the rise of docker (and related technologies), running things cross platform has less importance than it once did.
I'm not saying it has zero importance, just less than the 90s/00s.
- XMPPwocky 6y agoIf Java had been able to provide it historically, "cross-platform sandboxed acceptable-to-high-performance execution of untrusted code" effectively describes WASM, which seems to be a fairly major emerging technology these days. Perhaps JVM bytecode is arguably just too complex for safe verification... (although JavaCard interpreters manage to do it for a restricted subset (with similar restrictions to WASM!) without too many problems)