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by exabrial 1261 days ago
Agree, swing was "terrible" because desktop programming is hard (so many event sources!) but it contained a lot less footguns than say, QT or GTK.

JavaFX is sorta the spiritual successor to swing. On linux, you can actually run it straight from the framebuffer! (No 'desktop' needed!)

There was also this discussion a long while back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25121705 The project is actively maintained and sees commits quite a bit! Might be what you're looking for.