&gt; In the future it might mean using (gulp) Java + WebAssembly<p>You know, after being out of the Java world for about ten years now, I&#x27;m starting to get the itch to use it again. I was one of those people that used to joke about programming in XML, but that&#x27;s really just a layer of indirection which is often a good solution to a problem.<p>It&#x27;s a very nice language, is fast, and has so far not been destroyed by Oracle. Plus JavaFX may be ugly, gut it is a cross platform GUI toolkit that works.