skija

Maybe the story is not finished yet. New approaches like JetBrain's Compose (https://www.jetbrains.com/de-de/lp/compose-mpp/) with a React inspired programming model might bring some new interest to the platform. Then there is a Java binding library for Skia (https://github.com/JetBrains/skija), and JavaFX is also alive and high quality. As everyone is used to fat Electron apps now, Java applications (especially compiled and packed with new JDK features) might be refreshing.

I think it's the core, the 2D engine, just never got the love it needed to be a great place to start. Nobody seemed to prioritize making that happen. Like, the antialiasing was noticably fuzzy. I never found an applet that looked like it belonged on the webpage. And when I built a few, it was a lot of work to even get font rendering to not be horrendous. And even then, you'd see what the browser rendered vs what the applet rendered and they were always off. I remember using images instead of font rendering sometimes. So, if you made a swing app, it was easy to put together, but hard to make look "professional". By the time of the Oracle acquisition, I'm pretty sure everyone just realized the browser and mobile "won" and that's why we just had JavaFX get broken off the platform and basically put out to pasture. But it's not like much went

The low-level stuff is already "done" with https://GitHub.com/jetbrains/skija which is a Java API with FFI to Googles skia library, which is used for rendering in Chrome and Firefox amongst other things.

The good news is that there's development in this space! https://github.com/jetbrains/skija > Existing offerings are: Graphics2D from AWT, GraphicsContext from JavaFX. They are good, but underwhelming. > Enter Skia. Skia has a proven track record of industrial-scale project relying on it for all things graphics: Google Chrome, Android, Flutter, Firefox Canvas, Xamarin, LibreOffice.

Skija (the graphics library in TFA) is in the JetBrains organiation... https://github.com/JetBrains/skija/

Errr, is there some example I can compile both into a Desktop app as well as Android app easily? I never got why we never got convergent Java apps that run everywhere... It's seemingly almost easier to do that with Qt than with Java If I could get an example written in Clojure that'd be even cooler :) I noticed they have this: https://github.com/JetBrains/skija/blob/master/shared/src/ma... Is rendering SVG in the pipeline? It seems within the scope of a graphics library.. or maybe not?

> Like any other JVM library, it’s cross-platform. It runs on Windows, Linux and macOS. It’s as simple to use as adding a JAR file. Well, not exactly. https://github.com/JetBrains/skija/ is 30% C++ and of course requires native builds: https://packages.jetbrains.team/maven/p/skija/maven/org/jetb.... If you are lucky, Maven simply hides it from you. UPD: no, it doesn't hide it. See https://github.com/JetBrains/skiko/blob/master/skiko/build.g... and search for 'lin'/'mac'/'win' and see for yourself. UPD2: @-moz-document domain("tonsky.me") { body { /* surovyi background color off */ background-image: none; background-color: hsl(0, 0%, 85.9%); } }