Thank you Pedro. I’ve admired your work for some time.
Well, it seems we’re all singing the same song. The question is, who (if anyone) is listening? > On 19 Dec 2017, at 09:12, Pedro Duque Vieira <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been with JavaFX since version 1, also have experience with Swing. > Been on a number of JavaFX commercial projects, contributed to community > projects like JFxtras, ControlsFX, worked on Scene Builder and also have > some open source JavaFX projects of my own. > > Like others said I think building openJFX should be as easy as possible, > having to climb a mountain to be able to contribute or worse yet trying to > climb and having to give up half way will block many people from > contributing. > > Having JavaFX team members help out contributors would also be very > helpful, I think, or at least having the OpenJFX various areas thoroughly > documented. For every hour a JavaFX team member spends on helping out with > some guidance community members on a specific issue it would be multiplied > for several working man hours. > I remember when I was a kid reading about how it was important for the guys > who made Counter-Strike to be able to talk to Valve developers directly, > Counter-Strike is one of the most successful online games of all time, it > started as a modification (mod) to the Half-Life game owned by Valve, it > was a free modification and was developed by a bunch of passionate > developers who earned nothing for it in return. > The game was created 18 years ago, later Valve adquierd the rights and > now, 18 years later Valve still sells and profits from newer versions of > the Game. A bunch of other successful mods were also created for Half-Life. > > Lastly someone has mentioned performance as the major issue with JavaFX. I > agree. I've never felt this with desktop apps, but maybe the apps I've > built were not performance heavy. > Having worked on JavaFX for mobile the major issue I've found with it was > performance, specially animations were not smooth which hindered the user > experience. If JavaFX is to grow and get more and more adoption it has to > run great on mobile. > > My 0.02€ :) > > Cheers, > > > > -- > Pedro Duque Vieira
