Java applets are dead, and should be. Great idea poorly executed. Java on the server never died or even coughed. It's huge. It's a very rich ecosystem and perf

Java applets are dead, and should be. Great idea poorly executed. Java on the server never died or even coughed. It's huge. It's a very rich ecosystem and performs very well at scale. Java for apps is IMHO underrated. The biggest foot-shooting decision Sun made was to bundle shitware like the ask.com toolbar with the JRE, and never to solve the JRE deploy/update problem that requires that every Java app bundle its own JRE. Solve that and java apps on desktop computers will make a comeback.