I've not heard of it before. It seems that Google is kind of the upstream provider, but Google is known to drop things all the time, too. If that happened, I wonder what JetBrains would do? Another concern I'd have is learning/mastering another language (Kotlin). It might be the right path, ultimately, but still a concern. Would we be "encouraged" to use IntelliJ (for Kotlin support)? Haven't looked into Eclipse or even VSC support for Kotlin.
Looks like it already has native packaging, menu management, etc support: https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/FEATURES.md#features-currently-available-in-compose-for-desktop Hopefully this wouldn't remain "Experimental" for long: https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/raw/master/tutorials/Getting_Started/screen3.png As for JavaFX and Oracle, I'm still confused if they are involved. The latest release (JavaFX 17, September 2021) still has Oracle on some of the docs: https://openjfx.io/javadoc/17/javafx.fxml/javafx/fxml/doc-files/introduction_to_fxml.html https://openjfx.io/javadoc/17/javafx.graphics/javafx/scene/doc-files/cssref.html I also really liked using Scene Builder to create the FXML visually and not have the UI "code" in the Java code. Compose seems more traditional and with the UI in the source code. Perhaps I'm just more of a visual person in that regard, which is another reason why I like using CM to model a DB instead of annotations or whatnot in code. On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 3:15 AM Andrus Adamchik <aadamc...@gmail.com> wrote: > A datapoint to our perennial discussion of technology to use for the > future CayenneModeler... With Swing being old and crusty, and JavaFX no > longer supported by Oracle, perhaps we should be looking for something > fresh. I just came across a new "Compose Multiplatform" desktop UI > framework by JetBrains [1]. It is programmed in Kotlin and is based on > Google toolkit for Android. Their GitHub examples [2] are not that visually > impressive, but I would imagine it is a matter of styling. A million $ > question is whether it will be around and open source in 10-15 years. > > Anyone knows anything about it? > > Andrus > > [1] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-mpp/ > [2] > https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/artwork/readme/apps.png > > >
