Linked by Andy Roberts on Thu 16th Jun 2005 19:50 UTC
I've been fortunate enough recently to be in contact with Steve Northover. Despite him being very busy with SWT and the forthcoming release of Eclipse, I've managed to grab some of his time to answer some of my questions. To clarify from the outset, the views expressed by Steve are his own and not those of his employer.
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I always hated java's layout managers. An overdesigned solution to a small problem. I mean, how often do you resize windows? I almost never do. I could never get my dialogs to look how I wanted them to look.
A shame SWT is not better than AWT/Swing in that regard.
I love how .net solves that problem with no effort using anchors.
Yeah im not even close to being objective. I love .net and hate java. When I write a program in C# it very often works the first time I compile it, where as in java I always have to spend hours looking at some trivial peace of code because there is always something in the java class library thats implemented in some incredibly wierd way. Like counting months from 0, or not displaying the header in JTable because I used the gridbagconstraints layout manager.
And I like working in an IDE that doesnt eat up my entire RAM and doesnt eat up 100% of my CPU for no apparent reason way to often.