Well, believe it or not, some people will choose safety net of Java the language over JavaScript, especially for web application.
It takes a lot of discipline to work on large JS code bases, and writing Java instead of JS could be a good choice for some projects if developer skill set is leaning towards Java.
Also, it seems that there is a fraction in Google which likes Java, hates JavaScript and has enough resources to go with projects that bring Java to browser like GWT or Darts.
Personally, if they already like Java so hard, why they don't "just" create nice JRE/browser/DOM integration package so we could use any JVM language instead of JavaScript.
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Well, believe it or not, some people will choose safety net of Java the language over JavaScript, especially for web application.
It takes a lot of discipline to work on large JS code bases, and writing Java instead of JS could be a good choice for some projects if developer skill set is leaning towards Java.
Also, it seems that there is a fraction in Google which likes Java, hates JavaScript and has enough resources to go with projects that bring Java to browser like GWT or Darts.
Personally, if they already like Java so hard, why they don't "just" create nice JRE/browser/DOM integration package so we could use any JVM language instead of JavaScript.