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> with a lot of quality and performance drawbacks. They were so significant that only one company managed to build a decent-looking app in Swing [Link to JetBra
by bjarneh 6y ago
> with a lot of quality and performance drawbacks. They were so significant that only one company managed to build a decent-looking app in Swing [Link to JetBrains].
Until I found the J-editor, I sort of agreed. I never understood why that project didn't get any traction; very well made IMO, and it looks good too.
https://github.com/gnooth/j https://github.com/gnooth/j
- didibus 6y agoMaybe because the repo doesn't even have a readme to tell you what it is?
- bjarneh 6y ago:-) That does not help of course. To be honest it did have a website (he has written a lisp implementation which comes with the editor as well ABCL - [Armed Bear Common Lisp]). I'm pretty sure the build instructions don't work either, and all sorts of other problems. But if you just download the binary distribution from sourceforge, and start it up (java -jar j.jar), you will hopefully see what I mean. It looks nothing like a Java desktop app. He has an excellent icon set, and he overrides the rendering of all sorts of components (scrollbars etc.) making it look superb.