Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JavaFX disappearing in Java 11 Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 21:28:40 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <5aa31268$0$25508$e4fe514c@newszilla.xs4all.nl> <5aa33efc$0$12894$e4fe514c@newszilla.xs4all.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: PBuS014lhzVyHjLbXmo/ZQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Content-Language: en-US X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38139 On 3/9/2018 9:12 PM, Silvio wrote: > On 10-03-18 01:28, Arne Vajhøj wrote: >> On 3/9/2018 6:02 PM, Silvio wrote: >>> Ten years ago I could not believe anybody was interested in JavaFX. >>> For new applications, the non-browser GUI was already dead and the >>> plugins (Flash and Silverlight) where on their way out. I am stumped >>> people are still developing Swing clients. >> >> Well - MS is still selling desktop applications for many B$ a year. >> >> And Android and iOS got about 5 million new apps the last 10 years. >> >> A desktop application is getting a rare choice for frontend >> for the typical business application. >> >> But declaring anything non-browser dead 10 years ago seem >> a bit exaggerated. > > Mobile apps are the special case here for now. It is a special case. But a rather big special case. > Since the browser/native > gap is closing fast there as well the same will happen on mobile as on > the desktop. Maybe. But so far it has not happened. > M$ did not exactly create a lot of new stuff on the desktop did they? > They did some half-hearted attempt at a couple of metro apps and > basically abandoned them. And then they ported the whole Office suite to > the web. MSO is availble in the 365 thing. But they still make a lot of money on the traditional desktop applications. Arne