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This was also what Java applets were meant to deliver – I remember running some pretty great Java Applet-based games back in the day.

But Java ran as an embed, not a browser-level feature, and was much slower to load than Flash (which came to offer much of the same functionality in an easy-to-use IDE).

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I can already imagine a minimal java VM (just transforming bytecode to wasm instead of JITing to machine code) inside browsers, thus allowing java (or any of the other JVM languages) running in the backend and frontend.

Google previewed some Android to chrome app compiler a while ago - can't remember the details. I imagine it would be a pretty good starting point for such a project instead of a full vm.

ARC (https://developer.chrome.com/apps/getstarted_arc)

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