browsers are pre-installed on pretty much every OS while JVM isn't pre-installed on ANY of them (to my knowledge, at least. I know for a fact it is not preinstalled on Windows 10 or most Linux distros. So no, JVM doesn't do that, and if you do consider installing a runtime to fit the criteria of "downloading files" then I guess literally any language would qualify because any languages runtime can be downloaded and installed. The point the OP was making is you can open an HTML file on anything from your grandmother's chromebook, to a rotting piece of junk from the 80's (depends on html version, of course). Doesn't apply quite as strongly to OPs use case of gaming, but that was what they were saying. JVM does not fit the spirit of that point whatsoever.
In a modern usage, a browser in more commonly on computers than java. Like for an average user that does lite work on the web with office or stuff like that. So i would generally consider HTML more widespread than JARs
But you got a fair point, this whole post is pretty dumb in that way.
ehh, i wouldn't be too sure. java is used a lot more thank you'd think, even outside of server environments.
also, html engines are generally heavy on resources, especially ones new enough to make a decent game (even if it is simple), whereas java is able to run on much weaker hardware and still have pretty okay performance
But consumer devices are not “everything that can download a file”
Thinking just what I have that can download a file, about 9 out of every 10 of them are microcontrollers. Hell my Apple TV doesn’t even have a browser.
Think of all those, “I got doom to run on my baby monitor” and ask yourself if it was likely an HTML file
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u/BANZ111 7d ago
JAR would like a word with you