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by kaba0 1597 days ago
> But not C/C++ (or, now, Rust/Go), in which a lot of common code on which native-targeted code in other languages rely is written.

It does actually. Graal can run LLVM bytecode. Also, if you mean some specific C library used by everything, the Java ecosystem is absolutely huge and has the benefit of being almost completely written in Java with very little native code.
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dragonwriter 1597 days ago
[re: what compiled to Java when applets lost vs what compiled to WASM today]

> > But not C/C++ (or, now, Rust/Go), in which a lot of common code on which native-targeted code in other languages rely is written

> It does actually.

It didn't when applets lost.

> Graal can run LLVM bytecode

GraalVM came around a long time after applets failed, so it isn't really relevant to assessing what capability applets had when they failed vs. what WASM has now.

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