Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM should have been

Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by btlr on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:22AM (#19719574)

Where did you get this "Java failed" idea? Java is one of the most widely used languages in the whole world...

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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by otabdeveloper1 on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:27AM (#19719623)

Java failed as a portable language-agnostic VM for user-facing apps.

You know, the use-case it was originally designed for. (I read the hype for Java 1.0, I was there.)

Nobody at the time could imagine that Java would eventually become the enterprise COBOL replacement.

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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by cmiles74 on Monday April 22, 2019 @11:45AM (#19719799)

I'm not so sure it failed. I use IntelliJ IDEA daily, people in my office use WebStorm for Javascript development. There are Swing applications out there that people use, admittedly the ones I've seen are mostly business software. And of course all Android applications are leveraging Java.

It's argued that only IDEs use Java, but Java + Swing strikes me as the most popular cross-platform language and toolkit currently in use.

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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by vraivroo on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:31PM (#19720807)

that's only if you don't consider "web/browser" to be "cross-platform"

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Re:Mozilla announces WebAssembly System Interface, what JVM ... by pjmlp on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:09PM (#19720613)

We develop on Windows, deploy across OS X, Windows, UNIX, mainframes and embedded devices, without re-compiling.

Looks pretty much living the dream of portable language-agnostic VM for user-facing apps to me.

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