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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by otakucode on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:38PM (#15314616)
Java never had, or tried to have, binary portability.
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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by weinzierl on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:51PM (#15314737)
"Write once, run everywhere" was literally the motto of Java. Java bytecode does run everywhere there is a JRE and the JRE has been ported to a lot of hardware.
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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by vbezhenar on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:51PM (#15314736)
Java bytecode is 100% portable.
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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by primeblue on Friday September 22, 2017 @03:58PM (#15315269)
Java 8 still has syntactic sugar for generics?
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Re:Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly by wtetzner on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:36AM (#15318134)
What does syntax sugar have to do with binary portability? Generics information is available in the bytecode, and you can access it through reflection (it's available on methods and fields).
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