Do you have any specific criticisms about the language? What features do you find confusing or annoying? We are always looking for ways to improve it.
- Josh On May 5, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Ed wrote: > > Why is JavaFX such an extreme departure from Java? At least Flex has > ActionScript and MXML--something that anyone reading this list can > figure out without having to look up and strain to grok. > > I am trying, really trying, to get into JavaFX but I just cannot > tolerate it's ugliness. JavaFX has to be the single most unintuitive > language to come out since COBOL. I mean really...can you be serious? > > I know that on one of the recent podcasts the posse was in agreement > that JavaFX was going to be the future of desktop Java but I > respectfully disagree. There is just no possible way any sizable > group of critical mass will ever adopt JavaFX. As with any > technology, there will be 'pockets of users' but the whole reason we > came over to Java from C++ was for the elegance and safety of Java. > The write once redevelop everywhere fantasy has been painful for the > past 15 years; Java is just now coming of age where we can actually > write something once and get the rest for free. Why did Sun, now > Oracle, ever let JavaFX out of the lab? > > JavaFX will do more harm than good for Java; the most JavaFX will do > is make people consider Flex, and or Silverlight all that much more. > > What's so wrong with Swing anyway, why can't we just rev Swing and > Java3D? > > I can see Groovy (or substitute your favorite JVM language Scala, > Clojure...etc here) breaking out with an elegant/terse wrapper around > the Swing, Java2D, Java3D primitives long...long before JavaFX ever > gets past the demo experiment that it is. Oracle should bury JavaFX > as fast as it can. > > That said the JavaFX 'rendering engine' is awesome. Just awesome. If > you haven't yet tried it you are missing something truly great. > Oracle should roll the JavaFX engine into a standard Java7 library. I > think JavaFX is the right idea it just needs (come on guys) a > realistic scripting language behind it. > > I know I have been hard on JavaFX, I have I hopes for the future of > Java and I strongly believe Java needs something like JavaFX going > forward. Great job to those who worked on JavaFX--as a developer I > know how much work it must have taken--it was a necessary first step > in a much needed direction. > > Overall I give JavaFX a 'B-' > > - > ed > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
