Sun Abandons Non-RIA Developers
Reports here and here state Sun is abandoning Swing. Sure, it will be available in the core API for quite some time and I'm sure they'll get to all the bugs. It's not like there have been bugs that have gone unanswered since Swing was first released. Oh wait....
What does this mean?
- Netbeans is rewritten in JavaFX and is now used as an Applet.
- IntelliJ moves to the .NET or Mono platform and actually gains a performance boost.
- Eclipse laughs at all of us for using Swing in the first place
- Kirill doesn't blog anymore
- ....
Keep the list going in the comments. I'm curious what everyone really thinks will happen due to this decision.
Re: Sun Abandons Non-RIA Developers
- Jean-Francois Poilpret will still create new open source projects (libraries, frameworks, whatever) based on Swing and will still desperately try to evangelize potential users (including himself); he will even go on blogging just as if Swing was mainstream at Sun. Last but not least, he would still act stupid at Jazoon to present JSR-296 and notice in his last slide "No, JSR-296 is not dead, it's alive and kicking" ;-)