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		jlgreco on Nov 13, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A spreadsheet in fewer than 30 lines of JavaScript... If being "like java" was so important, then why didn't it just straight up lose to "actually java"? I don't think that JS+DOM beating flash/java has much to do at all with "gee, this looks superficially like java, but is different enough to trip me up in rather weird ways".

davvolun on Nov 13, 2013 [–]

Don't conflate why Flash lost to why Java (in the browser) lost, there are very different reasons. For one thing, Java had failed as a browser plugin long before Flash did (as if we don't still see Flash in the browser...I wonder what our discussion would be if not for Apple?).

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