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Not just Java, there's been a decline of desktop apps in general.

It's kind of ironic, because most of our apps are now running in an even slower language with "Java" in the name (JavaScript)

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I find this such a shame. I think this reflects an increasingly consumer versus producer aspect of culture. I find that desktop apps support and foster creativity, and producing readily manipulable creative artifacts - with speed. Sass/webapps/etc tend to foster consumer-oriented, indeed mobile, usage, creation and creative operations are often subtly high-latency and subsequently & so are tacitly discouraged while consumption is encouraged.

I love the pitch found in https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/, but it doesn't seem like it's resonated much in the large - so far, at least.

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