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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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