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Have you by chance had any experience with using Kotlin with JavaFX/OpenJFX? I've never been much of a fan of Java, but have had a fair amount of exposure to Kotlin via Android development and have found it fairly pleasant to work with, so if it meshes well with OpenJFX that may appeal to me as an option for cross-platform desktop dev.

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I love kotlin and have messed around with javafx + kotlin. It works well once you have set it up.

Do you mean TornadoFX, or some other kind of JavaFX-with-Kotlin?

In Kotlin, you can use any Java library without a wrapper. That includes JavaFX of course.

TornadoFX is only a convenience skin on top of JavaFX to make Kotlin code more concise (but it's heavier also as it adds a lot of code to your application).

I wouldn't use Tornado - it's effectively dead. Hasn't been a commit merged in for 5 months, and doesn't seem any forks have really picked up the mantle.

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