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They are using the past tense of Java. In case you don’t know, the primary use of Java when it came out was to run “applets” inside the browser. And it was terr
by orev 4y ago
They are using the past tense of Java. In case you don’t know, the primary use of Java when it came out was to run “applets” inside the browser. And it was terrible. It was later when it became mostly a server-side thing (which at the time was dominated by languages like Perl, PHP, etc.)
- hawkeyedan 4y agoTo be precise, applets were an early application of Java. But Sun Microsystems actually developed it in the long-standing dream of the “universal binary.” The project began in 1991 targeting set-top boxes. [source](https://web.archive.org/web/20100210225651/http://www.java.com/en/javahistory/ https://web.archive.org/web/20100210225651/http://www.java.c...) WASM is another iteration of the same noble idea done with different technologies at a different moment. Java and the JVM have been incredibly successful. WASM has the potential to bring the dream of a universal binary even farther.
- DonHopkins 4y ago>But Sun Microsystems actually developed it in the long-standing dream of the “universal binary.” Never heard of UCSD Pascal?
- jacquesm 4y agoHistory is rewritten one faulty comment at the time.