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Java-based GUI applications often being ugly and sluggish perhaps unfairly tainted the reputation of the language and VM.
by frou_dh 13y ago
Java-based GUI applications often being ugly and sluggish perhaps unfairly tainted the reputation of the language and VM.
- pjmlp 13y agoMostly because they were developed by programmers that failed to understand how to proper use Swing. It is incredible how, regardless of programming language and UI toolkit, people still take the easy root and do heavy work on the UI thread. And don't make proper use of widgets customization capabilities.
- frou_dh 13y agoC# with the WinForms API is the only desktop GUI programming I've done and I found both the process and results very pleasant. IIRC I was fairly well behaved and used the "BackgroundWorker" in a few places :-)