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Re:FFM (Foreign Function and Memory API) Goes Final by dtech on Sunday December 10, 2023 @05:52PM (#38595849)
Yeah java isn't really used for Consumer apps and this is one of the reasons. The ones that do evade this problem by bundeling their own JVM.
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Re:FFM (Foreign Function and Memory API) Goes Final by thfuran on Sunday December 10, 2023 @06:22PM (#38596040)
No, consumer java desktop applications were already uncommon when java 9 came out.
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Re:FFM (Foreign Function and Memory API) Goes Final by geokon on Thursday December 14, 2023 @12:33PM (#38644205)
More broadly, non-Electron apps have been uncommon for a while. I just don't work in the webspace and I need to write code that's relatively performant b/c it involves some numbercrunching. I understand it's all possible with Electron.. but it's a bit daunting to have a client-server web stack and multiple languages with some stuff in a local backend.. It's all a bit beyond me

JavaFX was a nice solution that's crossplatform and near-native. It has a very nice react-like library in Clojure called `cljfx`

https://github.com/cljfx/cljfx/

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