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Glimmer
Goals
- Platform-independence - Native widget support - Industry-strength - Strong community support - Ease of use
Principles
- Concise and DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) - Asks for minimum info needed to accomplish task - Convention over configuration - As predictable as possible for existing SWT developers