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Java GUI is less appealing though

• dzonga 3y ago
  but it would still be bettter and more performant than electron based apps. a little memory heavy, but no more than electron apps while being less janky
  • synergy20 3y ago
    For me I use neither, I actually picked wxWidgets after all those desktop GUI troubles over the years, not ideal, but it's the best I found for myself.
• mike_hearn 3y ago
  That was true in 2005. Modern Java UI can look pretty great. Two examples: 1. Start IntelliJ and check it out. It's Swing but it feels modern and fresh. 2. Go to https://www.jfx-central.com/ https://www.jfx-central.com/ ... JavaFX was introduced years ago to add far better support for modern visuals. JFX Central is a website written with JavaFX itself - it runs server side and streams drawing instructions to the client (implemented using a mix of divs, svg tags and css). You can do this because JavaFX implements the CSS2 drawing model. The website looks modern, like any slick website would today, but you can also download and run it locally. It uses Conveyor to do that in fact. The desktop version looks exactly the same as the web version.
  • synergy20 3y ago
    how is jfx-central different from https://openjfx.io https://openjfx.io?
    • mike_hearn 3y ago
      Different websites run by different people, I think. The former is more of a news site. But yeah, arguably they should be unified.