The "thing" about GUIs in Java...

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Wow, that's actually pretty cool. I've been thinking about learning Java, looks pretty interesting. Is it a difficult language?

Not at all, I learnt enough to work quite quickly now with Swing (The GUI API) in about 4 hours of playing with it. Java is a really rapid language to pick up one you have the "OH THATS HOW OBJECT ORIENTATION IS AWESOME" moment