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Re:Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete by sigzero on Monday March 24, 2025 @02:22PM (#43463950)
"easy UI development" Java never really got that part right.
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Re:Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete by pjmlp on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @03:44AM (#43468852)
Yes it did, IDE tooling was the answer, and Netbeans still provides its Matisse, WindowBuilder on Eclipse, and as does InteliJ.

Back in the day, JBuilder offered a Delphi like experience.

What I would agree is that the thing that actually made Swing hard are the defaults, which required books like "Filthy Rich Clients" as gate into making wow Swing applications.

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