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By the way “write once, run anywhere” was the original promise of Java. Back in the 90s! Before JavaScript was even a thing!!! People wrote Java applets that w
by shp0ngle 4y ago
By the way “write once, run anywhere” was the original promise of Java. Back in the 90s! Before JavaScript was even a thing!!!
People wrote Java applets that were supposed to be same everywhere. It even had GUI.
Nobody expected that not Java, but _JavaScript_ will be the actual write once-run everywhere.
- bornfreddy 4y agoYes. But in reality it was more "write once, debug everywhere". It was actually quite a nice concept, but the resulting UIs were inevitably clumsy and had that distinctive (ugly to me) look, no matter what the platform promised. If it doesn't look good out of the box, it won't look good later either.