Prior to web browsers when was such a thing ever widespread? And if you eliminate web browsers from the picture, how many usages are even left?
> Java got big right when the first consumer OoOE chips came out in the 90s.
Java doesn't do this, so how is that relevant?
BPF has existed since the mid 90s for one example.
> Java doesn't do this, so how is that relevant?
Java and the client web were next to inseparable concepts at the time. Java ran their VM as a shared library in the browser process for applets.
Prior to web browsers when was such a thing ever widespread? And if you eliminate web browsers from the picture, how many usages are even left?
> Java got big right when the first consumer OoOE chips came out in the 90s.
Java doesn't do this, so how is that relevant?