Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ...
by that_jojo on Monday April 22, 2019 @09:52AM
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Thanks for teaching me something totally unrelated on accident today. I was under the impression that all of the post-clamshell iBooks were OSX-only and had to check everymac. Now I'm slightly wiser on a topic that no one gives a shit about.
Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ...
by analognoise on Monday April 22, 2019 @10:13AM
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"Now I'm slightly wiser on a topic that no one gives a shit about." - I'm taking this quote and integrating it into my life.
Even big framework web apps on a core 2 duo running old Firefox, that is nowhere as bad as early Java trying to run something as a web applet.
I remember staring at that crazy Java applet load spinner and hating Java, and this was already in the early 2000s (on the first white iBook running Mac OS 9). It would have been much worse 7 years earlier.
It was really just the JVM’s startup time and the clunky AWT-based UI that made Java lose on web clients. Flash easily dethroned Java there because it started almost instantaneously and could do fancy animations (recall dial-up speeds meant video wasn’t an option).