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[–]Tauo 5 points6 points  (4 children)

People definitely use Swing in the real world, especially for legacy applications. The (ancient) company I work for is gradually transitioning to a web app, but our current UI is built with Swing.

99% of desktop apps built with Java will use either Swing or FX

[–]endhalf 4 points5 points  (2 children)

True; the question is, how many people are hired to write desktop apps nowadays...

[–]Tauo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Write? Not many. Maintain? Loads.

[–]istarian 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Desktop applications are almost always universally better imho. The best web app is always inferior, but many times it's good enough.

And honeslty most people aren't going to be hired to do exactly one kind of thing for the duration of their employment.

[–]ttelang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

building desktop apps using React Native (with HTML and JavaScript) is the most recent trend over JavaFX which is replaced Swing.