Ask HN: Does Java need a modern Java UI toolkit for desktop/web?
The effort is laudable, but ultimately futile. The world has moved on from Java on the client. It is now largely relegated to a backend language for enterprise applications. Nobody really wants the heavyweight mess that is the JRE on the desktop when other frameworks do a better job. There was a case for Java-based desktop apps in the 1990s&#x2F;2000s when browsers were slow, desktop UI toolkits were generally terrible and lacked cross-platform capabilities. But this was then and now is now.<p>So no, a new UI toolkit is not going to revive Java in the mainstream.