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Re:Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved by tannhaeuser on Friday August 04, 2017 @10:29AM (#14928890)
> Java [...] was just a bit too early to the party, and didn't have an HTML viewer to get its foot in the door.

Well, it kindof had one ([1], [2], [3]). Rhino JS (still used all over the place; for example by Google's closure compiler) originated from that time.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotJava

[2]: http://jazilla.sourceforge.net/pmwiki.php

[3]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/javax/swing/JEdito...

Re:Web Assembly Working Group Charter Approved by j45 on Friday August 04, 2017 @08:19PM (#14933462)
Oh, swing.