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From: Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net>
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On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 21:05:13 -0500, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
wrote:

[snip]

>WindowBuilder is supposedly a bit better.
>
>It was a commercial product, but when Google acquired the company
>they opensourced it.
>
>But that tool it not widely used either.
>
>We see practically no questions about it here.
>
>A quick check on StackOverflow revealed 133 questions
>tagged WindowBuilder and 22752 questions tagged Swing.

     I do not challenge your statement of width of use, but ...

     Since something that is easy to use would tend to have fewer
questions per capita, the raw number of questions is not as indicative
as you might think.

     I saw how rec.arts-int-fiction got turned into little more than
an Inform 7 support group.  I recall one poster stating that the
language made it very easy to do easy things, but if what one wanted
to do was off the beaten track, it could be quite difficult.  And we
saw a lot of questions.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko