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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by steve19 on Monday April 22, 2019 @06:04AM (#19717685)
Forget full computers, an official Java subset even runs on every GSM SIM card. It is incredible!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Card

Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by IshKebab on Monday April 22, 2019 @08:07AM (#19718221)
People keep bringing this up but Java Card is a really small subset of Java so you can't draw any conclusions. In particular it has no garbage collection, which is easily the heaviest part of Java.

> Many Java language features are not supported by Java Card (in particular types char, double, float and long; the transient qualifier; enums; arrays of more than one dimension; finalization; object cloning; threads). Further, some common features of Java are not provided at runtime by many actual smart cards (in particular type int, which is the default type of a Java expression; and garbage collection of objects).

Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by ktta on Monday April 22, 2019 @09:52AM (#19718909)
To add on, here's a quick intro to the headache that goes into writing Java for GSM cards - https://youtu.be/31D94QOo2gY?t=607
Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by tluyben2 on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @10:06PM (#19734934)
But writing Javacard for ICCs is like writing another language and ecosystem entirely. The syntax is familiar but there the comparison kind of ends.