AWT is somewhat dead, will JavaFX survive?

[Johan Vos]

I got the question "Will JavaFX survive?" very often since I became co-lead
of the OpenJFX project, about 7 years ago. OpenJFX is a technology project
and contrary to most client frameworks OpenJFX itself has no marketing
department with "devrels" etc.
The resources working on OpenJFX are focusing on the technology. And I am
very proud to see that the code you could write for JavaFX 9 is still
running today on JavaFX 23. I don't think many client technologies can say
the same.
The diverse contributors to the OpenJFX project are doing a fantastic job
in maintaining and advancing the technology in the spirit of OpenJDK and
Java in general. Granted, I sometimes wish we (as in OpenJFX) had some
marketing efforts of paid devrels to spread the word at many conferences.
But as developers, our first priority and main skills are in working on the
code.

- Johan

On Sat, Sep 28, 2024 at 5:17 PM Davide Perini <perini.davide at dpsoftware.org>
wrote:

> no answers, means a lot...
>
> On 26/09/2024 17:44, Davide Perini wrote:
> > As title.
> > AWT is too old to withstand the future and probably it's too old to
> > withstand the present.
> >
> > AWT is falling apart with old APIs breaking as operating systems move on.
> >
> > Even very important features like tray icons and notifications are
> > broken.
> > Something is broken in Windows, something in Linux, something on macOS.
> >
> > Current notification APIs is old and is somewhat broken in Windows
> > with notification that doesn't stick in the notification center.
> >
> > SystemTray on Linux is completely broken because it still uses the
> > ancient xembeds instead of the newer SNI.
> >
> > I love JavaFX but will JavaFX survive the fact that AWS is abandoned
> > and that it is falling apart?
> >
> > Is there something moving to renew AWT or it's just kicking a dead horse?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Davide
>
>
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