> finally delivering what Java promised Isn't this mostly true for Java already? I certainly recall downloading various applications bundled in .jar's and havi

> finally delivering what Java promised Isn't this mostly true for Java already? I certainly recall downloading various applications bundled in .jar's and having them work fine on whatever platform I happened to be using. I think people moved away from writing end-user apps in Java because they were bloated and slow and had ugly UIs, not because cross-platform development was super hard.