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For clients, JS runtimes offer a more polished experience on average than Java. That's not because of anything really intrinsic to the languages or platforms -

by zubat 9y ago

For clients, JS runtimes offer a more polished experience on average than Java. That's not because of anything really intrinsic to the languages or platforms - it's just worked out that there is a lot of Java server code and a lot of JS client code, and consequently more catering to either of those extremes.

stephenr 9y ago
> JS runtimes offer a more polished experience on average than Java [Citation needed] They're both non-ideal solutions, but there is one caveat: java tends to be the language of choice for companies like JetBrains, that want to deliver an awesome experience on all platforms, and go as far as shipping a custom JVM to make that happen. javascript (read Electron) tends to be the language of choice for web developers who want to see their fancy icon in the Dock/Menubar.