Re:Clojure Lisp and a modern GUI
by jamesbritt on Saturday November 01, 2008 @01:11PM
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"What's wrong with using Swing?"
I make an argument for Swing as the best Ruby GUI option here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/j-monkeybars/index...
I imagine something akin to Monkeybars could be developed for Clojure whereby developers can exploit the fluidity of the language while getting the benefit of Swing development tools.
What's wrong with using Swing?
It's interesting that Qt places itself as "a better Java". Regarding the UI and API parts, many coders knowing both Java and Qt seem to agree.
Re:Clojure Lisp and a modern GUI
by michaelneale on Saturday November 01, 2008 @06:28PM
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They both suck from a users point of view. Who cares what developers think - if you want your users to have the best experience, then as a developer you have to not think of your own convenience.
Which port is better? A Qt/Gtk/Swing port or no port at all?
Every time I use Inkscape on Windows I'm happy about the Gtk toolkit, because there was no chance at all of the software being ported to Win32 otherwise.
I had some experience with using Swing and Clojure, and was able to easily wire up GUIs laid out in NetBeans to Clojure code.
This included subclassing elements such as table view headers to customize appearance, cross-platform on OS X and XP.
Note also that Clojure can be hinted to eliminate type reflection, bringing performance to a par with Java.