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Nobody cares there's only one implementation that's really used widely for Java. I don't see why I should care what VM is used for the web. Chromium can be that
by calvinmorrison 3y ago
Nobody cares there's only one implementation that's really used widely for Java. I don't see why I should care what VM is used for the web. Chromium can be that and you can build whatever tooling on top to interact with that VM
- marginalia_nu 3y agoI think this argument would have credibility if it wasn't for the fact that Google is ostensibly waging a war against the ability to extend the browser in any way that harms their ads business (with Manifest v3). Google has a massive conflict of interest with the free and independent web in a way that Oracle does not have with the ability to build and run arbitrary Java applications.
- calvinmorrison 3y agoSame could be said about Oracle a decade or two ago honestly