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Re:Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime by EamonnMR on Thursday March 28, 2019 @10:47PM (#19518727)
I suspect that the JVM isn't an option since Oracle v Google showed that it's not as open as we'd hoped and nobody wants to try the same trick with .NET.
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Re:Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime by pjmlp on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:02AM (#19519703)
Sun and Oracle are pretty open to JVM vendors that don't play license games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Java_virtual_machines#...

Additionally, Google could have bought Sun, and decided to see how it would burn instead.

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Re:Lucet: Native WebAssembly Compiler and Runtime by imtringued on Sunday March 31, 2019 @12:40PM (#19536508)
The JVM isn't an option because java applets have failed. They are a massive security nightmare and they only run java, as opposed to everything (at least that's the promise of WASM).
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