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The small amout of time I spent with JavaFX was productive, I wish it was more popular. It was a viable alternative to QT for cross platform desktop GUI apps, but I do get a feeling that its future is uncertain with it getting unbundled from the Oracle JDK. I don't really get why AWT and Swing get to be first class citizens of "core" Java while JavaFX which is the best approach to build GUIs in Java cannot be.

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Just curious, what kind of software were you building with JavaFX? Was it for work or a side-project?

I've been interested in JavaFX for a while. As you mentioned, the technology actually seems quite good. But I barely ever see or hear about it being used in the wild which worries me.

It was for a side project. At work using JavaFX is of doubtful viability since hardly any developers seem familiar with it as opposed to QT.

I feel exactly the same. I loved JavaFX and I sometimes dream of an alternative universe where software never went to browser and always stayed on the desktop. JavaFX might have been the king.

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