Since I keep hearing a lot about it, I recently had a look at the JavaFX site and after waiting an inordinately long time for something to happen (it seems to take longer to load than Flash). I saw the this popup…
Well, it wasn‘t exactly what it said but that‘s what I saw! Anyway, it was a loooong time to wait for something that looked a lot like Flash.
I‘m tempted to bitch about the whole new declarative language used to produce JavaFX apps. It looks Java–like, and it also looks JSON–like but is probably neither. But, I won‘t bitch about it just yet, I haven‘t looked into it enough to form an opinion — and certainly not enough to express an opinion.
First published on Feb 19, 2009. Last updated on: Feb 19, 2009.
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