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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by bigstrat2003 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:54AM (#43859402)
> Name another true write-once-run-anywhere universal VM that is installed in billions of consumer devices and costs nothing. It doesn't exist.

Java certainly meets your criteria and exists. But much like the person you are replying to, I consider the "modern software ecosystem" to be utter garbage. Web browsers are just a terrible user experience for applications compared to the desktop. We have regressed greatly in user experience, not progressed.

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by ramesh31 on Thursday May 01, 2025 @03:00PM (#43861955)
>Java certainly meets your criteria and exists

It does not. Nothing about Java provides a sandboxed runtime environment.

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Re:All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of thei... by immibis on Friday May 02, 2025 @03:16PM (#43873674)
Nor does anything about WASM. The sandbox is provided externally. The only difference is that Java standardizes functions for things like file access, while WASM doesn't standardize them (but WASI does!)
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