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by zaarn 2579 days ago
I'm well aware of the history of bytecode formats, Java was pretty successful for a while, even managed to get in the Browser and only failed there due to a lack of a DOM Interaction story and similar integration problems.

There is already plenty of companies that deployed WASM on their stack (like Ebay, they use Wasm for their barcode scanner), it's not going away any time soon.
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pjmlp 2579 days ago
What lacking of DOM interaction story?!

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/deployment/applet/ma...

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zaarn 2579 days ago
The CDAPI barely worked when it was released. It worked but poorly to the point that the Java Devs would have better not bothered at all. It's such a poor story for DOM Interaction that it effectively does not exist. Everyone prefered to use some UI library to render UI themselves.
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