Good timing. Just the other day, I was reading up on $current_year cross platform GUI solutions, like the back and forth discussions on the merit of React Native vs Ionic or Capacitor, or whether the "future is Flutter" or how Google may go all-in on Kotlin Multiplatform and abandon flutter. You know, the usual drama.

Then I remembered some years ago, in this similar situation, I decided to learn (invest time on) JavaFX when Qt, gtk, Xamarin and web tech were the alternatives.

Well, yesterday I googled, after all these years, if JavaFX apps can be run on Android devices (spoiler: no, or not in a usable way)

Now, in hindsight, I know that I put my egg on the wrong basket by focusing on Java and JavaFX. I was deluded on their write once run everywhere promise. I feel betrayed by Oracle due to their detaching of JavaFX from default JDK.

I think if I chose to focus on a web tech frontend framework (or even Qt) I'd been better off.

Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.