Re: UI toolkit for the future Modeler

I believe that compose UI library is used to build the new upcoming IDE
from JetBrains called Fleet. So I expect it will continue to be supported
unless that product completely flops.

I don't mind the current modeler UI. It's good enough for me.

https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/


On Sat, Dec 11, 2021 at 2:15 AM Andrus Adamchik <[email protected]> wrote:

> A datapoint to our perennial discussion of technology to use for the
> future CayenneModeler... With Swing being old and crusty, and JavaFX no
> longer supported by Oracle, perhaps we should be looking for something
> fresh. I just came across a new "Compose Multiplatform" desktop UI
> framework by JetBrains [1]. It is programmed in Kotlin and is based on
> Google toolkit for Android. Their GitHub examples [2] are not that visually
> impressive, but I would imagine it is a matter of styling. A million $
> question is whether it will be around and open source in 10-15 years.
>
> Anyone knows anything about it?
>
> Andrus
>
> [1] https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/compose-mpp/
> [2]
> https://github.com/JetBrains/compose-jb/blob/master/artwork/readme/apps.png
>
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