> ...no one wanted to run other peoples code. This obviously didn't stay true; the browser is everything the JVM wanted to be today. A JIT for a universal prog

> ...no one wanted to run other peoples code. This obviously didn't stay true; the browser is everything the JVM wanted to be today. A JIT for a universal programming language and multiple layers of sandboxing. I don't think people care about running other people's code. Java just wasn't seamless enough. Or they lost some key political battles (few major OSes shipped with it).