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thomashabets2today at 6:22 PM1 replyview on HN

> 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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thaynetoday at 6:57 PM

It was successful for a while. Java applets were once fairly common. But then Flash largely replaced them, and then Html5 killed them flat.