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Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor by Wowfunhappy on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:07PM (#23128324)
I'd heard that before! I kind of debated whether to put Java or QT first—it came down to the fact that QT apps just feel closer to me on macOS. Although I don’t know how ugly they are under the hood.

Edit: What does LAF stand for?

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Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor by saagarjha on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:34PM (#23128483)
LAF stands for "look and feel", which is basically Java's name for "UI theme". Another fun fact: Cocoa had official Java bindings at some point!
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Re:Show HN: Lite – A small, fast text editor by didibus on Saturday May 09, 2020 @08:27PM (#23129340)
The Java SWT toolkit uses Cocoa native widgets under the hood. So it is a native UI toolkit. That said, like parent said, native doesn't necessarily translate to a user experience of being performant.

The rest of the application, being in Java, will often means it will have your typical JVM high memory usage and slow startup times.

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