eclipse.platform.swt

I'm a big fan of using plain SWT[1] without JFace. In fact GTK4 support is already being work on! I tend to see a lot of developers think of Eclipse Platform UI/JFace[2] when they see SWT. Eclipse Platform UI is Eclipse's abstraction over SWT that allows them to make consistent components across platforms. SWT is lighter weight and it's just platform native components. Also since you are dealing with native components you get easy access to platform accessibility. Eclipse has some great documentation for the platform as well as loads of snippets[3] and examples[4] to pick apart. There is also an incredibly useful charting library[5] that is used heavily by OpenChrom(Uses Eclipse platform)[6]. I have only tried it with some small samples, but SWT does work with GraalVM native-image[7]. This should allow you to develop a nice little stat

Nice work, but I wish SWT had picked up more steam outside the Java community. It's the same idea, but with a decade+ of banging on the corner cases for the use cases of the Eclipse IDE. In addition to all the standard controls, it's also got OpenGL and browser embedding since before Electron was cool. Using it on the JVM is very easy, but there was a short-lived attempt to maintain a C++ API. - How it looks: https://www.eclipse.org/swt/ - From Jython: https://github.com/danathughes/jythonSWT - From JRuby: https://github.com/neelance/swt4ruby - From C++ (defunct): http://www.pure-native.com/ It's built out of small chunks of C code: https://github.com/eclipse/eclipse.platform.swt/search?p=1&q... that are wrapped in a Java API with a straightforward coding style that seems amenable to automatic source translation. And it doesn't need GC