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by openfuture 2619 days ago
Java is a language backed by the JVM it tried to do two things:

Be _the_ language (Java)

Be _the_ platform (JVM)

Wasm is a compilation target, it's better to compare it to the JVM than Java. The thing that has me excited is that _every_ language will be write once run everywhere not just some new and unproven language (like Java was at the time).