It also didn't help that the early ports that they did were heavily customized - far more than they needed to be
I respectfully submit that the man who thought AWT was an acceptable GUI toolkit doesn't have a leg to stand on here.
I respectfully submit that the man who thought AWT was an acceptable GUI toolkit doesn't have a leg to stand on here.
Where did Gosling say that? I remember reading that AWT was a botched job because they had very little time to ship out a UI toolkit. They replaced it with Swing later.
And if you think Swing also sucks, then try developing swing apps in groovy. Java language sucks even in SWT UIs.