Carlos on SWT vs. Swing and IDEA 3.0. One other observation, is that IDEA can be more innovative on the GUI side, that's because Swing is definitely more maleable than SWT. SWT may be fast, however Swing is more agile, and just possibly with all these 2Ghz machines and up, it just won't matter.[Carlos Perez on SWT vs. Swing and IDEA 3.0]
This is a good point. I'm a GUI guy at heart and I've worked extensively with Swing. I really like it and Carlos is right, it is very flexible and extensible. With faster and faster processors and more and more memory, the performance problems with Swing will become less and less apparent. [Blogging Roller]
The performance issues will eventually go away, but the problem with Swing will always be that it will never look quite like a native app. Emulation of changes to the Windows controls is always going to lag significantly behind the real thing. Developers don't seem to care much if their IDE looks like a native app, but it seems to be more important for the general-use market.
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