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Draget

11/06/2020, 7:12 PM

I know this is a kind of provokative questions, but I need to ask: Why not a Kotlin API to JavaFX? JavaFX really seems to take off recently. (I know there is TornadoFX, but the guy behind it is kind of a lone-soilder and it is not really a 1:1 mapping of ithe API). And if it is about modern declarative GUIs with mobile and desktop support from the ground up… what about Flutter? o.o

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Big Chungus

11/06/2020, 7:15 PM

Because the long term goal is true mpp ui library. That'd include android, jvm-desktop, native-desktop, ios and web

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Since jetpack-compose came first and is kotlin-first, it makes more sense to build on top of that rather than javafx, because it's then easier to port it to other kotlin targets.

That's my personal reasoning, not official statement by jb. Also there's already a POC of compose on the web (which wouldn't be possible so quickly if it was based on javafx)

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romainguy

11/06/2020, 7:28 PM

Using Kotlin (as opposed to Dart with Flutter) gives you full access to existing Java/Kotlin APIs and complete interoperability

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Draget

11/06/2020, 7:43 PM

Thanks for the feedback. I will keep an eye on all three projects and see how things develop. 🙂

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