Re:Telescript programming language
by mindcrime on Monday July 09, 2018 @02:50PM
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Mobile code was dying before, but the final nail in the coffin is the Spectre/Meltdown class of vulnerabilities (with new variants coming out monthly).
Is it though? I mean, has anybody stopped using Javascript as a result of Meltdown/Spectre?
True, Java applets largely died off, but that was as much because it took Sun WAY too long to ship the "Consumer JRE", coupled with a rash of Java security issues over a certain window of time, that made people scared to enable Java in their browsers. I doubt many more people disabled Java after Spectre/Meltdown, than before.
Is it though? I mean, has anybody stopped using Javascript as a result of Meltdown/Spectre?
True, Java applets largely died off, but that was as much because it took Sun WAY too long to ship the "Consumer JRE", coupled with a rash of Java security issues over a certain window of time, that made people scared to enable Java in their browsers. I doubt many more people disabled Java after Spectre/Meltdown, than before.