Java stuck in an applet in a document made me sad in the 90s. It seemed to me Java should have been the canvas (or something more like the smalltalk that had in

Java stuck in an applet in a document made me sad in the 90s. It seemed to me Java should have been the canvas (or something more like the smalltalk that had inspired some of Java) The problem of packaging portable User Experiences was partially dealt with by the JVM. Now we’ve done it all again with JavaScript and Web Assembly (albeit lower level) I’m not sure that where we ended up is all that bad but I can’t shake the feeling it could have been a lot better.