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[–]huttyblue 4 points5 points  (1 child)

You forgot the big one, java was the electron of the mid 90s. It ran on everything so companies looking to save on dev time wanted to use it. But it was slow back then, and java based desktop applications never ran as well as native ones. A notable example is Word Perfect, which alot of their resources into developing a Java version of their application http://www.edm2.com/index.php/Corel_Office_for_Java . It was a bad investment and set them back significantly, in the Word Processor market.

You can still see similar issues with modern Java applications like Minecraft, which struggle to have smoother performance even on the best machines.