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On 3/23/2018 4:36 PM, Ian Pilcher wrote:
> On 03/23/2018 01:26 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Java was never that big on the desktop.
> 
> Not big on the desktop, but it has a certain niche in things like
> network device management tools, remote console viewers, etc.  I'm
> certainly not looking forward to regressing to needing a Windows VM
> for these sorts of things.

Database admin tools.

Design (UML, ER meaning of the word) tools.

Etc..

I believe there are even a few popular consumer
applications.

So there is definitely some usage.

But it is far from mainstream.

Arne