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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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