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david_ar on Oct 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Ca...

Not that I'm a big fan of Java, but it really feels like people threw Java under the bus only to reinvent it all in JavaScript.

pjc50 on Oct 19, 2015 [–]

Java was captured by "Enterprise", lending it an air of radioactive uncoolness. So people are very reluctant to look at it and risk learning something from its successes and failures.

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