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WebAssembly and the JVM: Two Answers to “Write Once, Run Anywhere”

Same bet, twenty years apart: a portable bytecode format run by a sandboxed virtual machine. In 1995, Sun Microsystems built a slogan around a real engineering bet: compile once to bytecode, run that bytecode on a virtual machine wherever one exists, and stop rebuilding software for every operating system.

WebAssembly and the JVM: Two Answers to “Write Once, Run Anywhere”

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Same bet, twenty years apart: a portable bytecode format run by a sandboxed virtual machine.

In 1995, Sun Microsystems built a slogan around a real engineering bet: compile once to bytecode, run that bytecode on a virtual machine wherever one exists, and stop rebuilding software for every operating...

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Same bet, twenty years apart: a portable bytecode format run by a sandboxed virtual machine. In 1995, Sun Microsystems built a slogan around a real engineering bet: compile once to bytecode, run that bytecode on a virtual machine wherever one exists, and stop rebuilding software for every operating system.

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