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Re:Breaking up with JavaScript front ends by ttfkam on Sunday December 11, 2022 @09:28AM (#33943489)
Java Swing is decades old (1998?) and does everything you list above. Was even embeddable as a browser applet in all major browsers at the time.
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Re:Breaking up with JavaScript front ends by wruza on Sunday December 11, 2022 @07:37PM (#33949375)
Every swing tutorial out there starts with a good old:

  c = new Container()
  w = new Widget()
  c.add(w)
  w.addActionListener(
    …200 bytes of a functor boilerplate…
  )
Also I don’t know java well, but variable/keyed arguments and closures like in python do not exist there, to my knowledge.

Am I missing something, or maybe you meant something else?

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