What does Python fix?

[Garry Hodgson]

Courageous wrote:

> >Not sure what problems you've run into.
> 
> Oh, nothing like you're thinking. I'm the author of a rapid prototyping
> toolkit built using Swing. Swing has good API appeal. It's slow, however,
> and having dealt with Swing for some time, I decided that it's slowness
> is in part due to its internal design approach.

i've been away from java for a while.
is swing still built on top of the pathetic AWT?

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