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by AlotOfReading 358 days ago
More of a historical footnote than a serious example, but you've never had to kill the Java applications running on your SIM card (or eSIM).
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frollogaston 358 days ago
I don't know about that, my flip phone used to crash quite often. And it displayed a lot of Java logos.
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AlotOfReading 358 days ago
Different processor and JVM. My understanding is that early versions of the Java card runtime didn't even support garbage collection. It was a very different environment to program, even if the language was "Java".
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