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Re:Java 12 by _bxg1 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:03PM (#19436508)
> Java on the web is dead,

>> I don't think you have any idea about the hundreds of millions of lines of Java that power the web as you know it today.

Presumably they meant Java in the client, not the server.

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Re:Java 12 by jimbokun on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:10PM (#19436577)
"Presumably they meant Java in the client"

Android?

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Re:Java 12 by willbw on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:36PM (#19436806)
They are talking about his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_applet

Which were absolutely everywhere at the turn of century.

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Re:Java 12 by jimbokun on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @07:49PM (#19437417)
So, yeah...if you are only thinking about web applets, which died over 20 years ago, and ignoring Android, which runs on most of the world's phones, I see why you might think "Java is dead."
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Re:Java 12 by pjmlp on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @04:13AM (#19439979)
Thanks to WebAssembly it is back.

http://teavm.org/

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Re:Java 12 by _bxg1 on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @06:58PM (#19437004)
The web client specifically
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