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Are you kidding? With what other language can you throw together a completely functional GUI that will "just work" cross-platform (no gtk/fltk/whatev libraries to install) in such a short amount of time? We're not talking about GUIs that make you cum in your pants, just ones that work well.
My first project post-university was redoing the entire GUI of some radar interface for the military. It had to work with RHEL5 and WinXP. Their backend was Ada and they used these awful teleuse windows. I used swing for all but one or the 71 frames/dialogs, and a plain old AWT frame for generated charts. It took about 6 weeks, which is less than 3/day, but remember that I had meetings and other crap to take care of. In any case, I can't think of any other language that could have handled that project better. Can you?