As if the Java app won’t be even uglier than electron and still weigh in at 300 mb for each. Not to mention introducing security issues on your machine with the jre
There’s a reason people stopped making consumer apps in Java
It is not quite a native binary, but the effect of not having to install java to run it is the same. Using jlink you can assemble a runtime image containing the java bytecode for the application and a custom runtime enviroment containing the parts of the the jre needed to run that program.
Java apps are even worse than electron. Not to mention you need to install Java to run them.
Mhm… Install 300mb once to run any Java application or 300mb for each and every electron app.
Its an easy choice.
As if the Java app won’t be even uglier than electron and still weigh in at 300 mb for each. Not to mention introducing security issues on your machine with the jre
There’s a reason people stopped making consumer apps in Java
I heard Java can compile down to native binaries now. I interviewed someone that told me, I haven’t written a line of Java in 15 years.
It is not quite a native binary, but the effect of not having to install java to run it is the same. Using jlink you can assemble a runtime image containing the java bytecode for the application and a custom runtime enviroment containing the parts of the the jre needed to run that program.
Because Java totally doesn’t exist for every platform ever