Future of GUI development in Java?
Considering that 

 - Sun/Oracle decided to not develop Swing any further after they "invented" JavaFX
 - JavaFX doesn't really work and [some consider it a failure already][1]
 - the not really platform-independent nature of SWT, the manual task to dispose GUI elements and the necessity to bundle platform-specific libraries

is there another way out?

If I would like to do GUI development on the JVM

 - with a good API (Swing and SWT are not bad, but they are not really good either.)
 - which "feels" responsive (still a problem today with Swing and SWT, despite the claims that this is solved.)
 - which won't be obsolete in a few years
what decision should I make?

Is there even a third option available or a possibility there might be one in the future?

An option

 - which is fast and responsive (Not Swing's ideology of "If it's not fast, it is the developer's fault")
 - with native look and feel
 - with a single library which runs on all platforms

Is this realistic?

*Thanks!*

  [1]: http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=2106
Future of GUI development in Java?
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Considering that 

 - Sun/Oracle decided to not develop Swing any further after they "invented" JavaFX
 - JavaFX doesn't really work and [some consider it a failure already][1]
 - the not really platform-independent nature of SWT, the manual task to dispose GUI elements and the necessity to bundle platform-specific libraries

is there another way out?

If I would like to do GUI development on the JVM

 - with a good API (Swing and SWT are not bad, but they are not really good either.)
 - which "feels" responsive (still a problem today with Swing and SWT, despite the claims that this is solved.)
 - which won't be obsolete in a few years
what decision should I make?

Is there even a third option available or a possibility there might be one in the future?

An option

 - which is fast and responsive (Not Swing's ideology of "If it's not fast, it is the developer's fault")
 - with native look and feel
 - with a single library which runs on all platforms

Is this realistic?

*Thanks!*

  [1]: http://www.pushing-pixels.org/?p=2106