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But poll any dev and ask which is more pleasant to write UI-heavy apps in: web tools, or Java?

Why limit to "Java"? For apps that aren't just front ends to web services, I'll take Cocoa, Android, or wxPython over HTML5.




> Why limit to "Java"?

Oh, please. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metonymy

And my point still stands. The majority of apps are either front ends to web services, or can be constructed using a similar approach that we use for the web today. They are UI-heavy. I did say you should be able to drop to native code if you really need the power.




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