I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?
I know this sounds bad, but maybe this is a blessing in disguise. Necessity is the mother of invention and maybe browser technology should be funded by governments instead of privately owned advertising megacorps?
A cross-platform environment for applications where fetching them is conveniently automated is not a bad thing.
Using something not intended for that goal is a bad thing. And making it the same thing as the Web.
I’m also confident that Sun went under because of overestimating the pace of industry development, but not its logical direction. When Java was only in the making, it was intended for this exact purpose. Cross-platform, easy development, transparent internals, all that. Designed for it to be possible to make a JVM for almost anything.
It’s so unfair really, they should have won before failing. They are going to win with nobody understanding they won.