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This is off topic, but thinking about portable desktop apps, why didn’t JavaFx become more popular? What is JetBrains using for its sophisticated GUIs? Is it ju

by todd8 3y ago

This is off topic, but thinking about portable desktop apps, why didn’t JavaFx become more popular? What is JetBrains using for its sophisticated GUIs? Is it just Swing? It would be great if Rust could be used to write portable high quality desktop apps.

RMPR 3y ago
> why didn’t JavaFx become more popular? Oracle ditched it a long time ago [0] > What is JetBrains using for its sophisticated GUIs? Is it just Swing? They use custom Swing components [1] 0: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3261066/javafx-will-be-removed-from-the-java-jdk.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/3261066/javafx-will-be-rem... 1: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/user-interface-components.html?from=jetbrains.org https://plugins.jetbrains.com/docs/intellij/user-interface-c...