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goatlover on Sept 10, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Thoughts on Clojure UI framework

Java apps weren't an alternative? Wasn't the initial promise of Java in the late 90s to write once and run anywhere? Not applets but the desktop applications using Swing or AWT.

Zababa on Sept 10, 2021 [–]

It was, but then the web actually delivered on that promise, and people needed a web app anyways. Why make two apps when you can make only one?

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