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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by greenhouse_gas on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @11:40AM (#15696581)
Alternate universe: JVM was more secure and had better DOM interaction, so Applets won against JavaScript.

The world goes around in circles.

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Re:WebAssembly support now shipping in all major browsers by Rusky on Tuesday November 14, 2017 @12:49PM (#15697361)
IMO we would still need WebAssembly in such a world, because the JVM still enforces a heavyweight object model and GC.

The "wasm is just the JVM all over again" meme needs to die.

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