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by thiht 1410 days ago
I used JavaFX a while ago and hated it. It was insanely slow, fonts were awful and the lib of components was non existent.

It really felt like something created by someone but never used in the real world. Is it even used anywhere?
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frou_dh 1410 days ago
Agreed, JavaFX's font rendering on MacOS was like this for years: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1413266/82507544-6... (Note not only the inconsistency between letters - all the specific colour values used are the wrong ones to get a working subpixel effect in the first place).

Possibly still is like that. But that gets around to your question... is anyone still around to notice?

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cbm-vic-20 1410 days ago
That's an homage to the Apple II color text rendering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_artifact_colors#Appl...

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