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Re:2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal by thomashabets2 on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:22PM (#46446776)
> Java on the other hand makes it impossible to get a single distributable.

Heh, I find this very amusing and ironic, seeing how Write Once Run Anywhere was a stated goal with Java, that failed miserably.

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Re:2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal by thayne on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @01:57PM (#46447116)
It was successful for a while. Java applets were once fairly common. But then Flash largely replaced them, and then Html5 killed them flat.
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Re:2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal by thomashabets2 on Thursday January 01, 2026 @03:20AM (#46452261)
A very limited "anywhere", but yes.

For that use case, was it active content, was it shipping intermediate representation, was it a sandbox? To all three: yes, very poorly.

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