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0 pointscollyw9y ago0 comments

That was the promise of Java - write once run anywhere. JavaScript managed to achieve it instead.

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goatlover9y ago· 2 in thread

You mean the browser achieved it instead of the JVM. It could have been something other than JavaScript as the scripting language. What mattered was the platform everyone ended up using.

emodendroket9y ago

For practical purposes it's the same either way.

goatlover9y ago

But it's not the same, because not all platforms use a markup language with a separate style language in addition to the actual programming language.

A JVM or .NET based web would have been a very different kind of platform.

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