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Re:TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to Java... by mping on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:48AM (#16077617)
Not only that, swing applets are notoriously fugly. One reason electron is successful is because it kinda looks like native. Swing Look and Feels all seem alien.
Re:TeaVM – Ahead-of-time transpiler of Java bytecode to Java... by oblio on Friday January 05, 2018 @04:58AM (#16077668)
Swing can be styled, it's that not a lot of people really bothered. Jetbrains products use Swing and they're decent.

Not amazing, but decent.