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Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better

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78 points pjmlp | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 08:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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epistasis ◴[08 Dec 25 08:31 UTC] No.46189804[source]▶
The only thing worse than launching the JVM from the command line, with it's looooooooooooong and inexplicable load time, was hitting a web page and having it lock the browser for that amount of load time.

I remember a few decades ago somebody saying the JVM was incredible technology, and as a user and programmer I still have zero clue what the hell they could have been thinking was good about the JVM.

I hear that now, decades into Java, they have figured out how to launch a program without slowing a computer down for 10+ seconds, but I'll be damned if I find out. There are still so many rough edges that they never even bothered to try to fix about launching a .jar with classpath dependencies. What a mess!

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1. matsemann ◴[08 Dec 25 09:20 UTC] No.46190158[source]▶
So your lack of technical knowledge or curiosity means Java wasn't incredible? That's certainly... a take. I'm almost curious: why did you end up holding strong beliefs like these, instead of actually investigating? As a curious person, when I hear something I don't know I like to learn - not just dismiss it. FYI, your .jar complaint is almost a decade out of date.