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Our startup's main product uses Java for a UI heavy app because makes it cross platform out of the box and is relatively easy to develop a nice, native looking UI with if you know what you're after.

Our closest competitors locked themselves to one platform and have faced challenges trying to go cross platform.

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Chrome and Firefox seem to do a good job of going cross platform.

İt is just far easier with java.

Being 'easy' is irrelative when it results in a terrible user experience. There's no way to explain to the user: "oh this would look a lot better but we wanted to use a different language so it's not our fault".

Jetbrains producsts has a good reputation. It does not apply here.

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