This might even be easier
also lots of web devs using JS
isnt it barely used outside of website stuff?
you could, but barely used outside of web indeed
I remember an interview of Insomniac Games where they made a game editor fully in a web page in HTML/JS, using a Chrome plugin to render the scene.
They later found how terrible it was to maintain.
Insomniac

https://deplinenoise.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/webtoolspostmortem.pdf
i mean, thats amazing that thats possible but javascript probably was not meant for that lol
they probably thought that with JS they could code quickly
which is ok for simple stuff
but for more complex stuff like an editor it would become spaghetti code
because JS is a typeless language with no (compile) code checks
difficult to track bugs...
interesting

Java gets interpreted right?
so you would only get an error while trying your app