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: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 21:03:40 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <64ac0595-1dec-428f-8202-107c25a90773@googlegroups.com> <1c494ba8-27fa-4584-af24-c99fa0cc9821@googlegroups.com> <5aa312c4$0$25508$e4fe514c@newszilla.xs4all.nl> <5aa33dc5$0$12884$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: 7bit 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 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.3 Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:38145 On 3/10/2018 3:50 AM, Daniele Futtorovic wrote: > You mention elsewhere in the thread that M$ is moving away from desktop > apps. Well, yeah, they've moved away from making apps _themselves_. Good > thing too; M$ is an OS manufacturer. They've only ever made apps in > order to sell their OS -- whether they realised it or not. At the same > time, as part of making their OS, they've invested lots of efforts into > enabling /others/ to make desktop apps for their desktop OS. And they've > been very successful at it: creating desktop apps for Windoze was and is > easy and accessible to everyone. That's more than can be said of Apple, > for instance. MS is still doing desktop applications. And selling for billions of dollars. > Lastly, I believe there's some extent of professional bias at play here. > As Java devs, we might be led to believe that all app development is on > the 'net, because that's the jobs we get offered. I wonder whether for > instance a Python dev might have a radically different take on the matter. I think Python would be the about the same as Java. Django, Plone, Zope etc.. Arne