The (dark) future of Java on desktop

[Richard]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2018 at 08:36:21AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> You could sit down today and re-implement everything in, say, C++, and
> it would be relatively straightforward, and while the result would not
> share any of JOSM's codebase, it would still encapsulate all the
> experience and brainpower that has flown into JOSM development over the
> years.

true in principle but you would need a protable GUI that doesn't suck or
you end up programming for at least 3 platforms with 3 sets of bugs, 
3 sets of dependencies etc.

Richard