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Browsercraft: Java Minecraft in the browser

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161 points John7878781 | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 14:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | source
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whalesalad ◴[31 Mar 25 15:18 UTC] No.43536031[source]▶
We have come full circle #applets

Twenty years ago running java in the browser would have just been called "using the internet"

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1. hombre_fatal ◴[31 Mar 25 19:29 UTC] No.43538842[source]▶
It's not full circle. It's using built-in browser capabilities instead of a special sideloaded runtime granted by a browser extension.

An example of full circle would be if wasm apps needed a browser extension so that they could access APIs not allowed by the browser.