On: WASM Is the New CGI

[silvestrov]

Most of all the problem with Java Applets was that they were very slow to load and required so many resources that the computer came to a halt.

They also took much longer to develop than whatever you could cook up in plain html and javascript.

[kaba0 → silvestrov]

Funnily enough, wasm also has the problem of “slow to load”. In that vein, a higher level bytecode would probably result in smaller files to transport. And before someone adds, the JVM also supports loading stuff in a streaming way - one just has to write a streaming class loader, and then the app can start immediately and later on load additional classes.

[gnz11 → silvestrov]

Too be fair, they were slow to load if you didn’t have the browser extension and correct JRE installed.