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smoyer on Sept 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: I Am Worried About The Future Of Python

"Js is clearly doing A job at client side programming, because there is nothing else available."

So Java Applets are forgotten already ... and they had such grand plans! I for one won't miss them at all.

romaniv on Sept 24, 2012 [–]

Java was never in a similar position to JavaScript. Java applets were never properly implemented as an integrated browser component that you can rely on. For example, you couldn't use Java to manipulate DOM and CSS.

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