New Technology : The Web Just Became More Secure: Google Drops Support for Java

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When Java was first publicly released in 1995, it was revolutionary. Developers could write their code once, and (in theory) run it on any computer they wanted without having to make any changes. It was, and still is, incredibly fast. This speed has lead to it being used in time-sensitive contexts, like high frequency trading algorithms on Wall Street. Java was also incredibly ahead of its time. From its first release, developers could use it as a tool to embed web-app like logic into web pages. These were called Java Applets, and because the code was running in a separate...

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