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vlovich123today at 2:12 PM1 replyview on HN

only netbeans is written in swing . Eclipse and Jetbrains use their own thing and still generally struggled.


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ptxtoday at 5:03 PM

No, JetBrains use Swing in IntelliJ IDEA. You can tell from how it (for example) fails to layout dialogs correctly the first time they're displayed, just like every other Swing application. And how windows have no minimum size because Swing doesn't expose that functionality. And the various baffling bugs involving window focus that are inherent to Swing applications.

Eclipse uses SWT instead, which wraps the platform's native widgets.