[cmiles74]

I'm a dreamer, I know it, but I still would like some kind of easy-to-use, developer friendly cross-platform UI toolkit. I used to do Swing development and, eventually, I learned to appreciate it. I understand why more people aren't jumping on the Swing train at this point but I have to say, the UI provided by Swing was less restrictive than the one provided by Electron.

Something in between would gain traction, I think, as Electron developer's run up against the hard edge of the kinds of UI Electron apps will allow.

[rmrfrmrf]

> the UI provided by Swing was less restrictive than the one provided by Electron.

I really want to know the use cases you're talking about, because, to me, nothing could be further from the opposite.

[cmiles74]

Warning: this video is old, lengthy, poorly paced and rather dull so feel free to click ahead. Still, it demonstrates a reasonably complicated Swing application that looks somewhat like a native Mac OS X application. The video was put together around 2003 so the look and feel is pretty dated. But the interface is fairly complicated and it does get feedback to the customer as soon as they get data out of range, etc.

https://youtu.be/r_lTGoTscos

[kuschku]

Have you tried JavaFX? It is awesome to work with.