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> Nobody really wants the heavyweight mess that is the JRE on the desktop

I mean, people seem to put up with electron these days, and the few modern JVM GUI apps feel generally better than electron stuff (for instance the all-pervasive UI latency that you get with things like vscode and slack is largely absent from IntelliJ).

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That latency really is the killer. The web needs a fast UI layer separate from the DOM. I’m waiting for WebGPU to roll out and build a UI library on top of it, forgoing the DOM. But then this is just another “hack”. I wish the web had something a bit better.

The DOM can be blazing fast. Just avoid pointless div soup, and use CSS that avoids complex text reflowing when not strictly necessary.

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