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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by otabdeveloper4 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @12:48PM (#29826911)
The original promise of Java was cross-platform user-facing visual apps. (Which is why Gates was scared of it.) This promise certainly failed to deliver.

Instead Java is now Cobol 2.0, but nobody lost sleep over this fact.

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Re:“I am literally losing sleep” over Java (1996) by PaulHoule on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:10PM (#29827327)
There was the idea that Java Beans would work like the COM model does for Visual Basic and it would be straightforward to build a GUI to build form GUIs.

That never happened, but few visual UI builders have come close to what Visual Basic was in 1995.

I liked JavaFX but I don't miss it.

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