alt Hacker NewsAs in, Java ME?
Unless I'm mistaken, it's been on life support for the past 15 years. It's probably more heavyweight and firmware size/Flash usage is a concern. I don't think performance would be on par with WASM and there are use-cases where that really matters (ray tracing rendering for example). I'm also not sure there are many maintained, open-source implementations for it out there. I've also heard stories that it was quite a mess in practice because it was plagued by bugs and quirks specific to phone models, despite the fact that it was supposed to be a standard.
I'd gladly be proven wrong, but I don't think Java ME has a bright future. Unless you were thinking of something else?
I wasn't thinking of a particular implementation so much as a VM in the abstract. So Java ME failed (I don't know much about it)—but I just didn't even think performance would matter much for a graphing calculator with how cheap hardware is. Those things must be almost entirely profit margin these days. Do kids even use them any more for school?