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It is not, at least in 2017. Qt5 is great, specially with QrQuick, but you need to commit to C++ and that's a problem in itself. (No, the Python binding are unholy with restrictive license and poor docs)

Swing is on a whole other level of verbosity. For anything more complex, you actually need a GUI editor.

Need an actually good looking set of widgets or even simple customizations? You have way less options than what's available in CSS and have to resort to Graphics2d drawing.

And Maven sucks, use Gradle instead.




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