IIRC, the JVM didn't JIT at all back when applets first appeared. By the time it did it was too late and people equated Java with poor performance.
I suppose WASM is more tied in to the browser than the JVM tended to be. So that's a bit different (if you don't include any browser that was written in Java).
The programming model is different. Applets had a fairly well defined shape. WASM is more anything goes. Not sure if that really qualifies as fundamentally different though - it's certainly solving the same sorts of problems that Applets, ActiveX, Flash and Silverlight were meant to solve.
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IIRC, the JVM didn't JIT at all back when applets first appeared. By the time it did it was too late and people equated Java with poor performance.
I suppose WASM is more tied in to the browser than the JVM tended to be. So that's a bit different (if you don't include any browser that was written in Java).
The programming model is different. Applets had a fairly well defined shape. WASM is more anything goes. Not sure if that really qualifies as fundamentally different though - it's certainly solving the same sorts of problems that Applets, ActiveX, Flash and Silverlight were meant to solve.