OT: Netbeans ported to JFX?

[Jeff Martin]

My thought is that JavaFX is perfect for an IDE targeted to education, like Greenfoot and BlueJ:

	SnapCode: SnapCode is the first and only pure JavaFX IDE
	YouTube Overview: SnapCode JavaFX Overview

SnapCode has visual code editing ("Snap-coding"), a sprite kit, graphics/sound editing, a runtime browser/player with animated transitions and more. It also has most of the features you expect in a modern IDE. Hopefully this is a great way to attract a new generation of developers and bring JavaFX to all Java developers.

What it doesn't have is very much in the way of resources. If anyone wants to help, let me know. If Oracle would like to kick in an engineer or a few dollars, I wouldn't turn that away either.

We need something like a "JavaFX Playground" before Apple Swift-boat's us. :-)

jeff


On Jul 9, 2014, at 8:29 AM, Michael Berry <mjrb5 at kent.ac.uk> wrote:

> It would be nice in a utopian sense - though I'd have to question if it
> would really be worth the resources required?
> 
> Personally I'd be much more in favour of further development of JavaFX
> itself...
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
> On 9 July 2014 10:52, Tobias Bley <tobi at ultramixer.com> wrote:
> 
>> very interesting question ;)
>> 
>> Will there be a android and iOS version of Netbeans in the future ;)?
>> 
>> 
>>> Am 09.07.2014 um 11:40 schrieb Robert Krüger <krueger at lesspain.de>:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> it is a little off-topic but the people reading this list are most
>>> likely the ones who could answer this.
>>> 
>>> Is a port of Netbeans to JFX planned or even ongoing? It would
>>> certainly be a huge project but I am asking myself, if there is a way
>>> around that with Swing being de-facto legacy if Netbeans isn't dropped
>>> as a whole. It would certainly demonstrate Oracle's commitment to JFX
>>> as the future for Desktop UIs and would surely help the maturity of
>>> JFX which IMHO needs tons of real-world apps to be thrown at it.
>>> 
>>> I would not be surprised not to get an answer for all sorts of
>>> understandable reasons but I thought I'd give it a shot anyway.
>>> 
>>> Best regards,
>>> 
>>> Robert
>> 
>>