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Was hoping this meant the resurrection of JavaFxScript/Visage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaFX_Script#Syntax
You might like Groovy’s SwingBuilder: http://groovy-lang.org/swing.html
However, I ultimately found that approach too limiting and went with custom layout managers for version 1.2.
This looks really cool. Applying a thin layer over parts of the standard library is a very good idea IMO. Reduces the dependency tree but a lot. One question (my Swing knowledge is at least 15 years old!): what's the simplest way to handle events using this? Eg taking the FormTest [1] example, how might one simply bind a model object to the UI elements? [1] https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra/blob/master/sierra-test/s…
I've maintained or built Swing applications for work and at university. One was a game.
I hope I'm not the only one who feels frontend programming is difficult to get right and to get maintainable software.
I would like to learn Qt but the C++ is a barrier to learning it.