Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by kaba0 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:43AM
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Just a note but android doesn’t run javaTM, especially not in a runtime. It compiles Google’s decade old java version AOT and native code gets executed on mobile phones.
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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996)
by fundad on Thursday January 06, 2022 @11:52AM
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Until iPhone, Java on Linux was the standard for smartphones. Was that Java Micro editon? I think the handset makers actually licensed Java/JDK/JVM, not sure it cost money or control or what.
Without cloning the language, Alphabet would never have been able to standardize non-Apple phones under one advertising platform.