Re: Why not written in Java?
- From: "Alan Meyer" <ameyer2@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 19:16:39 -0400
"bowman" <bowman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1153024710_21870@xxxxxxxxxxx
Thomas Hawtin wrote:
Apparently, Swing is the dominant GUI toolkit in North America.
I find that extremely hard to believe unless there is some sort of qualifier
in that survey.
I also find it very hard to believe.
If we regard "dominate GUI toolkit" as meaning the one that
the most number of end users see for the most number of
hours, I'd say that the Windows API and the many layers
over it like Microsoft Foundation Classes and Visual Basic
are vastly more dominant than Swing, probably by two, three
or four orders of magnitude. Think for example about MS
Office, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Outlook Express, and a
few other applications that occupy 99% of most users time.
As for the number of programmers using Swing vs. those
using one of the MS Windows toolkits - that may depend on
how you count the Windows toolkits. Are Visual Basic and
MFC two different toolkits? They are, but they represent
the same underlying tools.
Most Java programmers I know aren't writing Swing applications,
they're writing applications that face the user via a web
browser.
I'm hard pressed to think of a single, popular and well known
program running under Swing, but that may just be my lack
of knowledge of what's out there.
Alan
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