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Why do you think it is worse? I am interested in hearing of your experiences on this.

Setting aside subjective reasons... how about the barrier for entry being lower for web development? Also, more people arguably have web development skills

Java isn't new or unpopular- if people wanted to use it, they would

The barrier for entry of web development is not necessarily lower, it's more that most people have already tinkered with web development informally.

Many IDEs have some sort of visual GUI layout tool, but the nature of HTML+CSS makes it a far leakier abstraction less suited to visual positioning.

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