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The main problems with Java on the desktop were: - Obviously non-native look and feel. For many years Java apps didn't even use the system font. At a time when

by pavlov 5y ago

The main problems with Java on the desktop were: - Obviously non-native look and feel. For many years Java apps didn't even use the system font. At a time when everything was on Windows and its UI was actually reasonably coherent, Java apps stood out as out of place and clunky. - Deployment. Each user needed to first install the Java runtime from Sun. This was a deliberate strategy by Sun to get the runtime in place on as many desktops as possible, but it failed colossally. It would have been better to just bundle the whole thing with each app, as Electron does today.

marcodiego 5y ago
> At a time when everything was on Windows and its UI was actually reasonably coherent Hmm... no. Even ms software on windows had different appearance and behavior. Actually, being a mostly proprietary ecosystem, apps tried to be different from one another to get attention. An xp machine running winamp, corel draw, ms office, windows messenger and internet explorer had 5 different themed apps at the same time and it was common at the time; it was the rule. Consistency on windows was always a problem.