[staticassertion]

I didn't think it needed to be stated why. It was horrible from a security perspective. The world has completely changed in terms of end user security since Java went from default-run to click-by-default to denied.

"One just needs to fully sandbox the VM" this is easier said than done. I explained in another post why Apparmor/Selinux are not nearly as effective as the Chrome sandbox. As for V8, sure, you could port over many mitigations it has to graalVM and get it running in a similar sandbox. Feel free, I'd certainly support you doing so.

Sure, my brain processes the benefit of other languages just fine. I'm excited to see wasm come to the browser.

[The_rationalist]

I explained in another post why Apparmor/Selinux are not nearly as effective as the Chrome sandbox. Interesting, where can I find such post?

I'm excited to see wasm come to the browser. Yeh but it doesn't have native binding with the browser APIs nor does it have multilanguage interoperability, hence the added values of graalvm over wasm.