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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by mwcampbell on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @03:33PM (#9461087)
Agreed on the crappiness of the web stack for this application. But WPF isn't necessarily better. Case in point: a Bible study program where one's choice of video card actually mattered, at least in 2009 (see http://community.logos.com/forums/t/6200.aspx). BTW, I only know about that specific example because my brother is a preacher.

I think a better foundation for a cross-platform editor/IDE would be SWT, the Standard Widget Toolkit from Eclipse, perhaps ported to .NET.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by Shog9 on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @07:47PM (#9462588)
And this is why it's web stack: there are no better alternatives.

For decades of trying, this is the best we've managed to do for cross-platform UIs. It ain't great, but it soundly beats the alternatives.

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by mwcampbell on Thursday April 30, 2015 @10:14AM (#9465158)
I think that SWT proves that for some criteria, particularly nativeness and accessibility, it is possible to do better than the web stack while covering all major desktop platforms.
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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by Alphasite_ on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:07PM (#9461339)
Or even IntelliJs skin and components for Swing.
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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by mwcampbell on Wednesday April 29, 2015 @04:28PM (#9461501)
Do the IntelliJ skin and components have any advantages over Eclipse's SWT in your opinion? My understanding is that Swing is much heavier. In fact, SWT was originally designed for Java 2 Micro Edition [1].

[1]: http://flylib.com/books/en/2.120.1.42/1/

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Re:Microsoft Launches Visual Studio Code, a Free Cross-Platf... by billrobertson42 on Thursday April 30, 2015 @12:32AM (#9463374)
Swing was crap at the time, but it got significantly better.
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