If one considers applications as GUI programs running on consumer hardware like desktops, laptops or smartphones Java is in reality not at all great at this tas

If one considers applications as GUI programs running on consumer hardware like desktops, laptops or smartphones Java is in reality not at all great at this task. It’s better than Rust sure, but definitely worse than C++, C#, Swift or Objective-C which have access to the native UI frameworks of their respective platforms. I’ve had the opportunity to observe Java’s floundering in this area for a couple of decades now and the only decent Java application that I can tolerate is an IDE from Jetbrains. I’m not happy with the performance or UI, but the alternatives are often worse, because in an unexpected twist they’re written in JavaScript.