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I'm surprised to see so little mention of Java as a cross-platform native app platform. Maybe I'm just old enough to remember coming up though when Swing and A

by douche 10y ago

I'm surprised to see so little mention of Java as a cross-platform native app platform. Maybe I'm just old enough to remember coming up though when Swing and AWT were the next big thing. Nowadays, IntelliJ and it's derivatives are all Java-based, and pretty popular and performant. I love getting a chance to get out of web-dev world and go build some ugly tools with WinForms from time to time. You have to do more work yourself, but there's so much less magic involved.

MaanuAir 10y ago
To continue in the Java vein: weren't Eclipse SWT & RCP supposed to be the ultimate answer to native cross platform UI development in Java? I had no experience with them: did they gain some adoption or recognition at least? Maybe all cross-platforms app solutions are just doomed to stagnate, at least until the next hype one rises, after all.