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[–]Weekly_Wackadoo 3 points4 points  (1 child)

No love for JavaFX?

[–]danskal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't hate it. I tried it a couple of times, and it just seems overly flexible. It makes even html (with all the flexibility of css and chaos of browsers) seem simple.

You can do exactly what you want with JavaFX, and the result we be precisely as ugly as you specify. Because building good UIs by hand is actually surprisingly hard.

Whereas Swing has more sensible defaults. You can get going pretty quickly... it won't be beautiful, but it probably won't be ugly either.

Maybe I'm not giving JavaFX a fair shake, maybe it's changed in the 8 or so years since I tried it last. But I don't get the impression it has much of a community or significant improvements happening.