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JavaFX is really under-rated. The primary argument against it being pushed by JetBrains seem to be related to exotic text rendering features, and/or bugs. OK, w
by native_samples 5y ago
JavaFX is really under-rated. The primary argument against it being pushed by JetBrains seem to be related to exotic text rendering features, and/or bugs. OK, well, it sounds a lot easier to do some targeted upgrades there than throw it all out. The core tech is really solid. It's been neglected in the past few years but desktop tech doesn't change that fast. Throwing out a toolkit designed for complex desktop apps and trying to adapt a mobile toolkit doesn't seem likely to lead to better results.
- thom 5y agoI'll admit I learned JavaFX at the same time as the Clojure wrapper (which fights against the paradigm a little, perhaps) but what I've seen is fine. Big component ecosystem, and styling that appears to be quite powerful if you want it.
- billfruit 5y agoMain thing I feel concerned with JavaFX is that it is no longer being bundled with the JRE. Why is it not being considered a first class citizen of the Java Environment? This means that even the tiniest project using FX should have dependency management to ensure that JRE versions and FX versions and other supporting jars all align up properly to work. Meanwhile AWT/Swing just works right out of the box.