7 engineers on Hacker News describe using Swing first-hand: 0 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I remember typing into a Swing? text field and the keystrokes not registering for a second or three, basically unusable.”
regret · personal · digisign · 2022-03-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I once fudged a UI DSL for AWT/Swing using annotations. It sucked. Too many edge cases requiring shims.”
regret · personal · specialist · 2018-03-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Swing provides a reliable and thorough cross-platform GUI toolkit... Unfortunately the learning curve is quite steep”
mixed · personal · cmiles74 · 2013-12-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Things I have become an expert in that are now useless to me and probably not valued by an employer”
regret · production · pkteison · 2013-10-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“You'd have swing and friends for front end tables”
neutral · production · dxbydt · 2024-07-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we maintain a big legacy desktop application in Swing.”
neutral · production · aggregat · 2023-09-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Server-side in Java with Client-side in Swing”
neutral · production · edwinnathaniel · 2014-12-01 · source ↗ · wrong label?