D vs Java

[U.Baumanis]

In article <dvk4a7$1utv$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Andrew Fedoniouk says...
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>"U.Baumanis" <U.Baumanis_member at pathlink.com> wrote in message 
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>> Well, there are hundreds of Java/Swing applications. :)
>> Take a look at http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/sightings/
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>I knew that you will show me this page.
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>You've missed capital letter A in Applications.
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>How to explain what I mean?
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>Well, the most popular Java IDEs were built on
>everything but not Swing.
>I think this fact can be an illustration of what I mean.

Well, Netbeans one of most popular Java IDE built on Swing.


>Swing is a child of academic development and is primarily
>used in univercities for educational purposes.
>Swing is conceptually best toolkit - classical I would say.
>But only in theory, practical implementation is far from ideal - to heavy
>to be used in real life.

I use Swing daily to write applications. They are fast, responsive, easy to
maintain, and clients don't have any issues with speed. :)
It is really conceptually very good and speed is the last thing to chose D (with
DWT?) over Java/Swing. Well, I am not OS/kernel developer. :)

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>About Java GUI practical implementation:
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>Here is my proof of concept:
>http://www.terrainformatica.com/org/j-smile/index.htm
>This is my JavaVM running typical GUI tasks.
>System of classes of this micro GUI  is close to Swing
>Even this small example shows that Java could run GUI
>successfully but for some reasons nobody really wants Java GUI.
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nice work! :)

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