forum for Motif, XLib, etc. programming enthusiasts?

[Alan Corey]

I wouldn't have considered Java a few years ago because of its
slowness.  But with ARM machines having the ability to natively run
Java bytecode I have to rethink that.  I still have more Raspberry Pis
than Androids though.

I wrote Java for a year or so about 10 years ago doing some command
line stuff talking to an Oracle database.  The size and complexity
made me think of Ada.

There is an SDR program written with Java Swing: sdrtrunk at
https://github.com/DSheirer/sdrtrunk/releases which isn't bad except
it only does trunking, no conventional radio.

I'm inclined to look into QT next though.

On 10/24/17, Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com> wrote:
> Alan Corey <alan01346 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Maybe Java Swing then it's portable.  I was enjoying the retro aspect
>> though.
>
> I've been using Swing for a couple of years now for GUI application
> development. It definitely feels 'retro' in a lot of ways -- Java is
> well on its way to being the successor to Cobol and Swing reminds me way
> more of Motif/Xt than Gtk+ or Qt as it's all about constructing dialog
> boxes out of (frankly terrible) geometry management abstractions.
>
> Unlike Motif/Xt, Gtk+ or Qt, the API along with the whole toolkit
> implementation is expressed using the programming language itself, so I
> don't feel like I'm using several languages at the same time.
>
> An unexpected bonus feature about using Java is that the core
> application logic runs on Android as well.
>
> --
> -keith
>


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