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I get that, it’s just that this is being presented as something that will kill Swing and Electron, which obviously makes it so that many will take away “I should use this to draw my buttons” from it. I’m advocating caution before throwing away Swing right now.

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Well, his intention is to create something that will eventually kill Swing (and Electron), so he probably got carried away wih his words a bit, but I do not see him missrepresenting.

This is a blog post, not a product launch. It's intended to be a foundation on which a "real" GUI library can be written. The author mentions that it is one of several steps that should allow the Java community to coalesce around a better toolkit in the long term.

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