> More or less. I mean, that used to be a thing you know.
I did not know Java applets can be stream loaded (ie, optimized for the web).
> WASM: A universal write-once, run anywhere bytecode for heterogeneous networks of systems
Not at all.. at least, not in my view. WASM is optimized for platform issues specific to the web. That is to say, how it behaves on load is the first priority.
I never got that impression from the JVM. If you say it is, then it seems to be a failure in marketing of the JVM or something.
Since you seem to feel WASM is a waste, what are your thoughts on the failure of the JVM? Ie, why don't I have Go and Rust compile targets for the JVM, with JVM browser code running my JVM targets and etc?
If JVM truly does have all of these WASM-web oriented features then it is an impressive failure on JVMs part. Quite curious
