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by Onavo 84 days ago
> Java Swing took on the task of drawing the UI elements on the screen in its own style.

Sun/Oracle also cheaped out by not having designers. If you see Flutter, they are able to recreate all of the platform specific widgets purely by having design engineers eyeball the implementations until they replicate the exact color and timing of every animation. Oracle/Sun was cheap and lazy.