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Re:Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsiv... by amcca029 on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @12:28PM (#15393617)
> but with none of the advantages like great tooling, great languages, UI builders and so on.

Its funny you say this while using java

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Re:Say no to Electron: use JavaFX to write a fast, responsiv... by e12e on Tuesday October 03, 2017 @01:02PM (#15393917)
Using the jvm.

So java 9, Kotlin, Scala or kawa (scheme), abcl (common lisp), clojure (nu lisp:), jython, jruby. While there are compile-to-js languages too (including Kotlin, Scala, clojure :) - there is quite a lot more history around jre/jvm languages for production desktop use.

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