[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: Swing port is coming - Lotus assists IBM

["Joe Smith" <ohcho@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Philippe Marschall" <kustos@xxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> Possibly some idiots might have developed in Swing, but found no 
>> commercial
>> demand and disappeared. We also converted AWT programs to Swing, then
>> quickly gave up Swing version. There is no way we can write commercially
>> viable
>> systems in Swing!
>
> If you can't write Swing apps that look good, then this is your fault.
> So the the LAFs that come with Swing suck? Then pick another one like
> Synthetica, Alloy, JGoodies, Office, ...

You probably work with non-Windows and for non-commercial s/w.
Otherwise, you would see differently.

If I have to pick another, then I MUST pick MicroSoft Visual C++ or
Visual Basic.

Regards.