[thomashabets2]

> Java on the other hand makes it impossible to get a single distributable.

Heh, I find this very amusing and ironic, seeing how Write Once Run Anywhere was a stated goal with Java, that failed miserably.

[thayne]

It was successful for a while. Java applets were once fairly common. But then Flash largely replaced them, and then Html5 killed them flat.

[thomashabets2]

A very limited "anywhere", but yes.

For that use case, was it active content, was it shipping intermediate representation, was it a sandbox? To all three: yes, very poorly.