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seanp2k2 on June 7, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?

Java also did it with 25x worse VM start times, 25x more security vulns, and a 25x more greedy and terrible company behind it (eventually). The legendary GC pause never helped. "Write once, run anywhere" then ironically becomes the specialty of Java...script.

nine_k on June 7, 2017 | [–]

It was when 4 MB RAM was what a typical desktop had.

Sun was inept in many regards, but not terribly greedy.

I don't see how JS doesn't magically have GC pauses. WebAssembly doesn't have a GC built-in, so it may host a pauseless process.

octalmage on June 7, 2017 | [–]

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