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> Most other GUI libraries is in a much worse state than front end web dev. I'm certainly not going to suggest you're wrong. But I would like a sincere compari
by whartung 3y ago
> Most other GUI libraries is in a much worse state than front end web dev.
I'm certainly not going to suggest you're wrong. But I would like a sincere comparison between JavaFX (because I sorta know it) and "the web".
Maybe its unfair, since the Web is "just the DOM", an empty vessel many of the other techs are built upon, which is why there's so many options.
I'm not a front end person, by any means, and have been striving to make things work with FX. I mostly "get" FX, how it does things with its containers and layouts and properties and bindings and events and UI thread. It has CSS, I mostly don't use it (better living through gray!).
The web, honestly, intimidates me. It intimidates me with its vast variety, its complex build processes, the apparently galaxy of dependencies and tools and what not. Cross browser stuff terrifies me. And maybe that's the wrong reality, but that's the impression I get.
I'm managing to Forest Gump my way through FX, but I have a Java background.