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What's wrong with JavaFX? I don't ever see it recommended, but a lot of us can do Java, and from my experience, it's way better than swing or awt.
by ld00d 10y ago
What's wrong with JavaFX? I don't ever see it recommended, but a lot of us can do Java, and from my experience, it's way better than swing or awt.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoI'd say nothing. If you're working on JVM, it's the best choice.
- niftich 10y agoJavaFX is fairly decent, and I agree that it's more pleasant than Swing or AWT. It's a fairly good choice for places where you can mandate or ensure that Java will be present on the client (e.g. internal line-of-business apps), but also in places where you don't need to have some ancient version to support some ancient application instead -- which cuts down on the pool a bit. Unfortunately, most users know Java from years ago and never understood the difference between an applet or desktop application, and in the minds of some users it's still falsely stereotyped as slow or insecure. In most shops I know, Java is being extensively used on the back-end, but almost no custom Java apps with GUIs. Most shops (and people) who could do Java on the frontend have gone to learn Mono or WinForms or WPF instead, which gives you results that feel nicer to most users.
- antihero 10y agoPurely out of interest, because I might have used one without even realising it, but could you link some desktop applications written in Java that haven't been sluggish as hell or a bit broken feeling?
- ld00d 10y agoI don't know. I did a cursory google search and came up mostly empty-handed. LoadUI is supposedly JavaFX. It's such an outlier for UI/UX though.
- pkd 10y agoJEdit? Any IDE by IntelliJ? These are not JavaFX (its fairly new), but you asked for Java.
- antihero 10y agoIntelliJ is a good IDE, but it's UI is far from not-sluggish.
- baby 10y agoYou need to write it in Java? Which is the considered one of the worst language of the new generation.