They created JVMs for basically anything (from personal computers to washing machines), but there was obviously a fault in that logic: virtual machines don't completely isolate you from the operating system.
Also remember not all JVM implementations were the same (I'm not sure about the current state).
See also what happened on the client side with Java applets or well... do you remember Java Mobile Edition?
That's why that slogan was "over promising and under delivering" :)
Java and JVM as you said reached immense popularity, but the title of the thread is about "over hyped software movement" and I think this one deserves to be here.
I wonder if WebAssembly will be the "write once, run anywhere" promise fulfilled of the 2020s or if in a few years it will be mentioned in another thread like this :D
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"Write once, run anywhere" wasn't about popularity, it was about writing the code once and running it literally anywhere.
They created JVMs for basically anything (from personal computers to washing machines), but there was obviously a fault in that logic: virtual machines don't completely isolate you from the operating system.
Also remember not all JVM implementations were the same (I'm not sure about the current state).
See also what happened on the client side with Java applets or well... do you remember Java Mobile Edition?
That's why that slogan was "over promising and under delivering" :)
Java and JVM as you said reached immense popularity, but the title of the thread is about "over hyped software movement" and I think this one deserves to be here.
I wonder if WebAssembly will be the "write once, run anywhere" promise fulfilled of the 2020s or if in a few years it will be mentioned in another thread like this :D