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Swing is swing, it's as good as it's always been (eye of the beholder). As I understand it, it hasn't completely rotted on the shelf, they've made updates to th
by whartung 1y ago
Swing is swing, it's as good as it's always been (eye of the beholder). As I understand it, it hasn't completely rotted on the shelf, they've made updates to the rendering to better leverage modern hardware, but it's not a modern toolkit by any means. But it is maintained, it still works.
JavaFX is good (I really like FX), and maintained, and portable. They just came out with 25 I think. But it's a completely different model than Swing.
- ameliaquining 1y agoSure, but the same might be said of the subset of Java that existed twenty years ago; this is different from what people mean when they say "Java's good now".
- spopejoy 1y agoJavaFX is better than swing, having done both (swing in a past life). CSS support is the big deal, plus modern rendering pipelines. Add that to the nice FP goodies and for-real cross-plaf packaging, (plus LLMs to get you through the crufty bits), it's IMO a serious contender for desktop UI.