Re:Ask HN: Why is building Windows apps so complicated?
by throwaheyy on Monday December 13, 2021 @01:41AM
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I don’t have the patience or interest in messing with GUI frameworks anymore.
Any desktop app I make that needs a GUI gets written in Java. Swing is antiquated but doesn’t change every year like everything else keeps doing. I use an XML UI definition language (Swixml) to make it RAD. With a modern look-and-feel package it looks great, runs fast on modern hardware, works the same on Windows/Mac, is easy to deploy, and most importantly: I know it will work basically forever.
Any desktop app I make that needs a GUI gets written in Java. Swing is antiquated but doesn’t change every year like everything else keeps doing. I use an XML UI definition language (Swixml) to make it RAD. With a modern look-and-feel package it looks great, runs fast on modern hardware, works the same on Windows/Mac, is easy to deploy, and most importantly: I know it will work basically forever.