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The coolest thing I ever did was bundle native libs for Linux, OSX and Windows in an applet, that let me access OpenGL in a Java applet years before WebGL was a thing. We had the technology to do real 3d-accelerated graphics in a type-safe jit-compiled language with a great IDE 15 years ago already.

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It is good that it is now dead in the name of security.

Java is dead in the browser... same as flash, or c or any other language. At least until the nightmare that is WebAssembly comes to fruition.

That said... the potential to exploit security holes via GL library calls is, unfortunately, alive and well even with WebGL.

Flash isn't dead yet, through its dying for sure. The only positive thing of unfortunately likely EME is it may put another nail in the coffin.

It bet WebAssembly will bring all those plugins back to life.

How would WebAssembly ever do that?

Easy, it is just a matter of creating a compiler backend for Java, Flash, Silverlight that target WebAssembly instead of their original bytecodes, then bundle it with their own runtime compiled via emscripten.

There are already a few projects doing exactly that.

One could even create a ActiveX compliant library, that via emscripten would be able to target WebAssembly.

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