Xojo vs Java / SWT
When comparing Xojo vs Java / SWT, the Slant community recommends Xojo for most people. In the question“What are the best cross-platform GUI toolkits?” Xojo is ranked 29th while Java / SWT is ranked 30th. The most important reason people chose Xojo is:
Easy to make compiled native apps.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Easy to use
Easy to make compiled native apps.
Pro Open source
Pro Actively developed
Pro Native controls
Cons
Con Subscription-based/Not free
Using this product you're betting the company will still be around. If they get bought out by an enterprise that wants to use the tech internally, all they need to do is stop offering subscriptions and suddenly you're scrambling to rebuild your entire app on other technology.
Con No Android support
They plan to eventually support Android, but for now, they only support iOS.
Con Only works in Java or JRE based software
Con Inherits limitation of native controls
E.g. slow handling of tables with a lot of rows on Linux.
Con No elegant abstraction
As in Swing; no models.