Why did Electron succeed but Java didn't, in creating cross-platform Desktop software?

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SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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  • promise

  • Projects like the promise library that gluon is doing would make JavaFX a lot more useful: https://github.com/gluonhq/promise - but this needs a ton of work. Still, custom JavaFX controls are still much more complicated to write then styled HTML components

  • react-native

    A framework for building native applications using React

  • https://reactnative.dev/ is very popular

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Apache Cordova

    Apache Cordova Android

  • https://cordova.apache.org/ was one of the first (and popular for a while)

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