I find it darkly funny that Electron is the new size/waste-of-resources whipping boy. Java applications generally suffer the same issues with the exception that

I find it darkly funny that Electron is the new size/waste-of-resources whipping boy. Java applications generally suffer the same issues with the exception that the runtime isn't usually distributed with every application. But the goal of write once, run anywhere is basically the same. Now that Java is being developed at such a speedy clip at the cost of breaking changes, we may see Java runtimes being shipped with apps. (I'm personally still on Java 8 because that was the last release before drastic breaking changes started happening.) Just kidding. Java has been abandoned in favor of web apps anyway.