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Re:Show HN: Hacker News desktop application in Kotlin/Swing by lmz on Sunday October 08, 2017 @01:46AM (#15427117)
The toolkit based on native widgets existed before Swing. It was called AWT.
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News desktop application in Kotlin/Swing by n3dst4 on Sunday October 08, 2017 @06:44AM (#15427739)
AWT wasn't native either - it just had one ugly appearance and couldn't be themed. I seem to recall it kind of resembled Sun's CDE (Common Desktop Environment) so it would have look sort of at home on Solaris.
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News desktop application in Kotlin/Swing by pvg on Sunday October 08, 2017 @07:53AM (#15427871)
AWT uses native widgets.
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Re:Show HN: Hacker News desktop application in Kotlin/Swing by hota_mazi on Sunday October 08, 2017 @10:10AM (#15428256)
AWT isn't native, it uses peers.

The fact that Swing ended up being such a massive failure was in good parts due to the fact that Swing is built on top of AWT.

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