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by tannhaeuser 3324 days ago
With IntelliJ using Swing as a major vendor and showing its potential, is there a chance for getting a new developer community behind Swing/geom2d? Or is IntelliJ in the progress of migrating away to something else? Asking because I'm having an old (but useful) Java2D diagramming app lying around that I'd maybe like to lift, but the lack of a future perspective for java2d and Swing always held me back on working on it. I don't even know if java.awt.geom can handle HiDPI these days. Would be a pity to loose it, since java 2d certainly is a useful programming model for these kind of apps; what's missing is commitment (by Oracle or other party) to it.