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by Pelayu 165 days ago
Amazing project!

>While the JVM solves lots of hard problems, it has one major weakness, the UI libraries provided by the JVM (Swing and JavaFX) are clunky and dated.

I also feel this; it's what puts me off writing GUI apps in Clojure. I have hope that natively compiled Clojure implementations like Jank that could interact with C or C++ libraries could help with this.
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geokon 165 days ago
what specifically did you have issues with?

i made a GUI with cljfx which uses JavaFX and I didnt really hit any issues (save for i have one bug on startup that ive had trouble ironing out). The app is snappy and feels as native as anything else

Ended with a very modular functional GUI program

the only thing i wasnt super happy about is that i couldnt package it as a simple .bin/.exe bc the jpackage system forces you into making an installer/application (its been a few years since, so its possible theres a graal native solution now)

i highly recommend cljfx. Its the opposite of clunky

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eduction 165 days ago
tonsky seems to be chugging along with his humbleui project

https://github.com/humbleui/humbleui

Most of the work (and the recent updates) seem to be in the two main subcomponents

https://github.com/HumbleUI/JWM

https://github.com/HumbleUI/Skija

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nha1 165 days ago
Same. I wish Webview would work with GraalVM native compilation.
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