I agree that a Java desktop application can be responsive, in fact I use a couple of them from time to time that behave quite well. Back in the day though my ex

I agree that a Java desktop application can be responsive, in fact I use a couple of them from time to time that behave quite well. Back in the day though my experience was that most of the Java software had terrible performance. In that case, I think it's correct to blame the platform for making hard to have a smooth experience "by default". (In the same way, for example, that we can blame C for not making it easy to write safe program, even if a programmer should be able to write them properly) > The GC can be tuned far better tha javascript! On this I agree completely! (altough my experience with that is mostly on the server side)