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by smackeyacky 5 days ago
They aren’t going away. They are an obvious answer to Microsoft GUI development being in the wilderness for 20 years.
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Java has been right there all along like the awkward best friend in a romcom.
It’s funny to me that a lot of the initial dismissal of Swing was “it isn’t native widgets”. Now that’s seen as a positive.
And Qt. They even made QML with literal reactive JavaScript.
If only there were other options available, cross platform even,...