As soon as we can get to the scene graph from Scala, it's dead IMO. A shame as I agree, the language would be very good with just a few additions.
-Josh On 5 May 2010 09:42, JamesJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Having done a few small projects with JavaFX: > > I really like the scene graph based graphics. It allows easy creation of > excellent, imaginative interfaces. Performance is weak. Tools are weak. > The fact that the licence tries to force you into a web distribution model > is bizarre to me. My understanding is no executable jars allowed with FX. > > The FX environment is still very young. It changes a lot between releases, > and many "standard" components are missing or newly implemented. But this > seems to allow them to learn from the lessons of the past. If they > stay committed to the path, eventually it could be a great productivity tool > for GUIs. It is exciting to see the progress. I cross my fingers that one > day it will have a very compelling value proposition that will make > it competitive with the other stuff. > > The language is good and bad. Binding can be used to make interactions > very nice. Declarative construction syntax is handy. Lack of generics > makes real world interfaces with existing Java/Scala just painful. > > If the scene graph stuff were to be made easily usable from Java and other > JVM languages, I think JavaFX would have trouble standing on it's own. > > > -- > 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]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > -- "Therefore, send not to know For whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee." Josh 'G-Funk' McDonald - [email protected] - http://twitter.com/sophistifunk - http://flex.joshmcdonald.info/ -- 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.
