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Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 by kitd on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @04:42AM (#24552284)
For initial scaffolding, or long-term maintenance? Because I'd pick the RAD GUI for the former and code for the latter.

You really don't want to add ephemeral designer tools to your list of hard project dependencies.

Re:A Picture of Java in 2020 by pjmlp on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @05:15AM (#24552476)
Both.

The Delphi, C++ Builder, Forms/WPF/UWP, Swing/JavaFX soul in me begs to differ.

In fact that is the biggest pain in Web projects to this day and I can hardly wait for stuff like Uno and Blazor to bring "Flash" back, if Web Components don't do it first.