[oblio]

Tech is rarely about tech (same as for most things in life: X is rarely about X). It's about money and power/control.

Java was proprietary for a long time and even now it's basically controlled by Oracle.

Also, due to various issues, it doesn't really run on Android and it doesn't run at all on iOS (I know about Codename One, I mean the OpenJDK).

WASM is a truly open standard. And it's quite likely to be present on all platforms, even though for obvious reasons platform vendors will drag their feet regarding WASM.

[aaaaaaaaaaab]

>WASM is a truly open standard

I guess in practice this means "open" like HTTP and HTML, for which Google decides what does/doesn't go into the standard.

[rcxdude]

WASM has been developed mostly outside of google (mozilla mainly) and is actually counter to a lot of the attempts google made to get similar features (e.g. NaCl). It's quite hard to claim google has had undue influence on its development.

[moocowtruck]

precisely what I was thinking...they have their hands in all these standards and most times seem to push the direction. But I will say this.. I'd rather them work on these "open" standards, then go ahead and keep to their own.. so i guess gotta take some bad with the good