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Finally, Java arrives to our browsers! Maybe we could use it to write some small applications with it, let's call them "applets".
by ceeam 3y ago
Finally, Java arrives to our browsers!
Maybe we could use it to write some small applications with it, let's call them "applets".
- xch 3y agoJava #1
- ptx 3y agoWaiting 26 years for a Java applet to load sounds about right.
- densh 3y agoCan’t wait to experience loading screens again!
- cogman10 3y agoI'm kind of excited to see the "WASM JVM" capable of running oldschool java applets (Much like Ruffle for flash).
- circuit10 3y agoThis already exists (but it’s proprietary): https://cheerpj.com/ https://cheerpj.com/ There is a free Chrome extension for it
- Tade0 3y agoOk, but we need a way to interface with it - using a scripting language for instance. Let's call this language Java Script so that it's clear what its narrowly defined intended purpose is.
- slaymaker1907 3y agoI don't know, this time around there has been much more focus on security which was really what spelled doom for Flash/Java. That and it's actually included as part of web standards instead of being something that users have to download and update separately. I doubt that GC would have been added at all except that it's a requirement to speedup and simplify the boundary between the browser and WASM.
- kaba0 3y agoThere was nothing fundamentally bad about security — any runtime is secure without having ways to call side effects. JS started afresh with barely any capabilities, while Java applets could actually be used to write real applications even back then. Since then JS grown a lot with carefully thought out APIs. But there is nothing fundamental that could not have been done in a JVM-web alternative future.