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by andydotxyz 255 days ago
That was a really cool project but yeah the Java couldn’t hack it.

FyneDesk aims to compete on performance with the light weight window managers whilst offering the rich experience of complete desktops.

We are close on performance in most areas, once Fyne v2.7.0 is out we will do a new release which is going to blow our previous out of the water. Just a few thread handling bugs to iron out for optimal results first…
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pjmlp 255 days ago
Java is fast enough for having legions of kids playing games written in it, and a full OS userspace, it is a matter of implementation, and how much use gets done in JNI, no different than reaching out to CGO or Plan 9 Assembler, while keeping most of the code in Go.
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andydotxyz 255 days ago
Oh yes, I didn’t mean to knock the language - I also worked on amazing things in Java before I moved to go.

But the runtime of a Go app is, by default, faster than Java and my experiences have shown much, much better performance with the sort of multi-window full screen throughput we need for building a desktop.

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