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Re:Electron 7.0 by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Thursday October 24, 2019 @03:57PM (#21348558)
You can quite easily bundle the Java runtime with your application. Many Java applications do this. As a bonus, it will still be smaller than the equivalent Electron application.
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Re:Electron 7.0 by shrimp_emoji on Thursday October 24, 2019 @05:24PM (#21349340)
Except Java applets are a thing of the past while seamless browser/browser-based software is a convenient thing of the present (and probably future[0]) and prioritizing size more than availability and usability is fighting the last war harder than a stranded Imperial Japanese soldier.

0: http://wasm.continuation-labs.com/d3demo/

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Re:Electron 7.0 by pjmlp on Friday October 25, 2019 @01:24AM (#21352140)
Java applets are not a thing of the past thanks WebAssembly.

Plus we are talking about regular Java here.

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