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disclaimer: I am not a java developer a few months ago I wanted to write a small desktop app which i wanted to distribute for Linux, mac & window in that order
by aksx 10y ago
disclaimer: I am not a java developer
a few months ago I wanted to write a small desktop app which i wanted to distribute for Linux, mac & window in that order of priority. My first implementation was in Qt but faced significant problems with building for different platforms, providing binary files that would just work, etc.
JavaFx was the next choice and damn the development experience was amazing, it was fun to write even when i had no prior experience with either Java or JavaFx but distribution became a problem again, the JavaFx classes weren't found on other peoples systems, people in the javafx irc told me that it should be available for everyone on jre 1.8 but alas no solution was found.
I finally shipped a electron app (shudders)
p.s. i found the javafxpackager but it didn't work, i am doing something wrong definitely but there aren't enough people talking/writing about this that i could refer too.