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gaius on Jan 7, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: An acceptable cross-platform GUI toolkit?

Interesting to note that two "amazing" apps written with Java are to help Java programmers ...

icey on Jan 7, 2009 | [–]

Why is that interesting? Emacs uses a lisp; does that mean anything about emacs or lisp? (Edit: I'm being serious, I guess I don't see why Java being used to write Java editors is a big deal.)

bdittmer on Jan 7, 2009 | [–]

To characterize both exclusively as tools to help java programmers shows that you haven't investigated either very much.

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