Post #1658320
2026-03-02 15:41 UTC
@andrewt JVM was owned by Oracle since 2010, and the ASF felt frustrated about inability to license the Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK) for Harmony. Mono's reimplementation of .NET Windows Forms always felt janky and crash-prone in my experience as a user.
I've seen WebAssembly as a successor to the JVM, except less opinionated about a particular object-oriented paradigm and not under encumbrance of One Rich American Called Larry Ellison.
#java #dotnet #wasm
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@andrewt@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-02 15:54
@PinoBatch Oh yeah, there are some very good reasons JVM and .NET didn't catch on like Electron did — but they do at least prove that cross-platform app development can be done with reasonably sized dependencies shared between apps. Heck, Tauri manages that, and that's just Electron but using the OS' native webview. Even if we accept that the web is the best shared abstraction we have, we don't need to ship a whole browser with every app