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haberman on May 31, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Goodbye PNaCl, Hello WebAssembly

Were you around in the 90s when people actually did try to use the JVM for this?

Do you remember the part where everyone started using JavaScript instead because of all the deficiencies of Java Applets? (Slow to load, resource intensive, no interaction with the surrounding page)

kuschku on May 31, 2017 [–]

I was, and I wasn't saying that WebAssembly is bad — but I'd have preferred compatibility with Java bytecode, even if it'd offer different APIs.

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