Josh, What is the status of the current whip effects on javafx?
Thanks, Adam On May 13, 10:22 pm, Joshua Marinacci <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 13, 2009, at 3:16 PM, phil swenson wrote: > > > > > "JavaFX Script is a great new language, but it is not the successor > >> to Java. JavaFX is for GUIs. That's it's focus and using it for > >> anything else will end in pain. :) > > > Have any specifics on how "anything else will end in pain."? JavaFx > > has a lot of features I like and seem general purpose to me: events/ > > properties, list literals, no primitives, etc. But I haven't actually > > used it of course. > > Much like Java, JavaFX Script steals a lot of cool features from other > languages. However, it was designed first and foremost as a GUI > language. It is intimately tied into the JavaFX runtime and GUI > constraints. I'm not saying it wouldn't work for other purposes, but > you could probably find better alternatives. One thing that JavaFX > Script lacks is any notion of threading. Everything is done on the GUI > thread, or is handled in a background thread for you by APIs, or uses > some other abstraction that hides threading. All GUI work is on the > GUI thread, and all binding evaluation and updates happen on the GUI > thread. Obviously this wouldn't be ideal for a server side > application. :) > > >> "I'm not convinced that there will ever be a successor to > >> Java because I don't think the world wants new general purpose > >> languages. It wants sets of languages & apis & tools that are > >> targeted > >> at solving particular problems. The future is lots of languages > >> running on the common JVM and underlying JRE runtime. " > > > That I don't buy. I think that the key is that any new general > > purpose language should be able to be bent to your will. In other > > words, any possible successor should support rich meta-programming. > > I'm not going to pretend that I'm smart enough to know what people > will be programming with in 10 years. All I know is that a lot of > effort is being put into making the JVM the ideal place for a variety > of next generation languages. I suspect JavaScript, Ruby, Python, > Groovy, Scala, and JavaFX Script will all be popular languages 10 > years from now. I sincerely hope PHP isn't. :) > > - Josh > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
