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by monocasa 179 days ago
Well, they run javacard, which is a far cry from normal java or even jme.

No char, double, float or long types. No arrays with more than one dimension. New creates persistent objects in something like flash with no runtime garbage collection. No String, and in fact most of java.lang.* is missing, etc.
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circuit10 179 days ago
With all those limitations I wonder why they didn’t just use something like C…

I guess the portability of bytecode? A modern version might use WebAssembly instead which feels more suited as it’s much lower level (at least without the modern GC extensions)

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monocasa 179 days ago
It does still have object level memory safety, so it has that going for it still more than C or even a wasm based VM would.
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