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		native_samples on July 9, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Are we GUI Yet? The state of building user interfa... That's a stretch. The most viable competitor to Electron other than Qt are the Java GUI toolkits. There are several but the two main ones are Swing (old, mature, not gonna win any prettiness awards but it gets the job done well enough in IntelliJ), and JavaFX (pretty darn good but people forget about it). I've shipped apps using JavaFX before. It was quite a pleasant experience and I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

tomnipotent on July 9, 2021 [–]

IntelliJ is great example of Swing, which also extends into its plugin ecosystem.

victor106 on July 10, 2021 | [–]

If you are looking to use Java. This is very good

https://github.com/JFormDesigner/FlatLaf

There’s also Kotlin multi platform

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