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dominotw on Feb 28, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: What makes WebAssembly fast?

>has grown up to be this thing that might actually replace Java entirely.

Java is just a language that runs on JVM, there have been many many attempts to replace it with languages brand new ( scala), existing languages ( jruby) including javascript( nashorn/ringojs ect), but no language has even come close to dethroning it. Its unlikely that javascript will replace it just because jvm is rewritten in java script.

lanna on Feb 28, 2017 [–]

> Its unlikely that javascript will replace it just because jvm is rewritten in java script.

that is not what oc meant. he is talking about runtime env, not source language

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