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Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by PaulHoule on Friday May 19, 2023 @09:54AM (#36001970)
I had a job coding Java applets for higher ed when Java was still in beta.

A Java applet could be small and fast loading but that required careful scoping, design, and coding. In JDK 1.0 you didn’t have JAR files and no serialization built in the platform. I wrote a program that would let you edit finite element meshes and submit to a FORTRAN code running as a CGI and the serdes code was about as large as the rest of the program.

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