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The fact that we said “Java” and you went to thinking about “Java applets” is part of the problem. Java was meant to be a universal executable format. It ended
by adastra22 1y ago
The fact that we said “Java” and you went to thinking about “Java applets” is part of the problem. Java was meant to be a universal executable format. It ended up confined to the web (mostly, at least in the popular consciousness).
- Aardwolf 1y agoWell actually that was because the topic of the article was webassembly :) I have seen Java used for backends / software as well (and other than the lack of unsigned integers for e.g. crypto/hashing/compression/..., and lack operator overloading for e.g. vectors/matrices/bigints/..., it's 'fine' to me)
- adastra22 1y agoBut that’s the point! “Web” Assembly really has nothing to do with the web, or browsers :) It came out of the web standards groups, that’s all. It is an architecture agnostic executable format.
- euroderf 1y agoYup, "Enterprise Java" really grated. Until it didn't.