It definitly had to do everything with Web, it was the agreement between Mozila going with asm.js, Chrome pushing for PNaCL, Adobe with CrossBridge, Sun with Java, Microsoft with ActiveX,....
Then some folks rediscovered UNCOL from 1958, all the systems influenced by it, and started to sell the dream of the bytecode that was going to save the world.
Then some folks rediscovered UNCOL from 1958, all the systems influenced by it, and started to sell the dream of the bytecode that was going to save the world.