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A comment on Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was still here. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by thedevindevops on Monday July 08, 2019 @08:54AM (#20382282)
Would a Java app, suit your circumstances?
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Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by karmakaze on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @10:53AM (#20392346)
Close, but there's no distribution since WebStart was killed off (rightly so it had unending vulnerabilities).
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Re:Ask HN: What's a technology that died that you wished was... by ScottFree on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:47AM (#20392950)
> (rightly so it had unending vulnerabilities)

That's exactly why those technologies died off. Flash and Java have massive security issues that neither Adobe nor Oracle are capable of fixing.

That said, you should be pretty happy about WASM then.

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