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Just tried it on Windows; unfortunately the lack of native GUI is a huge turn-off for me.

Software-drawn GUIs always stick out like a sore thumb and look/feel clunky; it's the same reason I hate using anything built with Java as everything always feels so emulated.

Also resizing Geany's window was incredibly laggy as the interface was re-drawn.

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I don't agree on the "Everything written in Java feels emulated" part. Have you tried IntelliJ? It is completely written in Java and looks and feels as if it is using native GUI (alhough it indeed isn't).

Have you tried it on macOS?

It's better than some older Java GUIs but still really doesn't feel native.

Geany is "native" on Linux, FWIW.

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