JavaFX Strikes Back

An airhacks.fm conversation with Johan Vos (@johanvos) about: Java
FX, CodeONE and JavaONE or conferences as trainings camp, Java FX
is more applicable now to mobile devices, Java FX and GraalVM teams
are working together to improve performance, openjfx.io the new
home of JavaFX, Java is a perfect technology for client
development, using Java on the client and on the server greatly
increases productivity, the beginnings of JavaFX, JavaFX on an
iPad, RoboVM the Java to native compiler, RoboVM was used to deploy
JavaFX to iOS, JavaFX has the same codebase on mobile and on
desktop, Johan Vos is co-lead of openjfx, Oracle is open for
community contributions to JavaFX, Oracle provides support for Java
8, what also includes JavaFX 8, JavaFX frontend also makes a Java
backend more appealing, openJFX github mirror, openJDK project
skara, gluon JavaFX releases, Neil Young on JavaONE, RoboVM was
aqcuired by xamarin then Xamarin was acquired by microsoft, RoboVM
is still opensource, openJDK mobile project, Android is more
problematic than iOS, to run Java 11, Zero: interpreter only
openJDK, GraalVM supports LLVM and so iOS and Android platforms,
SubstrateVM is like tree shaking for Java, JavaFX UI controls,
openJFX controls, main goal of openJFX is long term
maintainability, TilesFX JavaFX library for Dashboards, TornadoFX
JavaFX for Kotlin, JavaFX charts by DLSC, JFX Days Zurich, JavaFX
3D Visualization and Component Library FXyz3D, SceneBuilder
downloads are increasing, JavaFX is comparable to ionic, flutter
and Reactive Native, the future of JavaFX is stable, migration from
JavaFX 8 to JavaFX 9 had breaking changes caused by the
introduction of Java 9 modules, Java's total costs of ownership are
low, Gluon Attach allows integration of native device's sensors,
JavaFX comes with a WebView which can be used as a bridge, JavaFX
WebView is based on recent WebKit, GluonMaps, Gluon CloudLink,
Gluon provides LTS support for JavaFX, Gluon Mobile

Johan Vos on twitter: @johanvos, Johan's company: Gluon