substrate VS certificate-ripper

Haha, it's amusing that the history essays are one of the things you remember :)

Yes you can compile Scala and ScalaFX apps down to native binaries this way. Look at Gluon Substrate:

https://github.com/gluonhq/substrate

One of our customers is experimenting with shipping such apps with Conveyor. There's a discussion ongoing here:

https://github.com/hydraulic-software/conveyor/discussions/6...

We got a console hello world working, albeit the DX is a bit rough. You need some ugly config boilerplate and some additional Native Image json files. But, it works, at least enough to create a Mac package with the regular Conveyor feature set. There are some limits though. I think the WebView doesn't work when the app is natively compiled this way.

If it all starts working well it could be quite interesting for desktop app development, as suddenly you could use high level languages and portable UI toolkits but with the sort of startup time, performance and memory usage you'd expect from native apps (modulo binary size which is still quite large). If you want to use HTML as the UI then you can use the Chromium Embedding Framework, which would give you an Electron-like experience but with many more available languages:

https://hydraulic.dev/blog/13-deploying-apps-with-jcef.html

I've been using JVM GUI for years for various tasks. It was appropriate for Bitcoin tasks because it's immune to injection attacks, because you can run everything locally with P2P protocols like the original Bitcoin app did, it's portable etc. Also I learned GUI programming decades ago and find classical UI toolkit concepts like VBox, HBox, StackPane, TableView etc more intuitive than HTML.

I ran into quite a few issues during Android/iOS development (e.g. java.util.prefs and GraalVM pulling in unused methods), but Windows was comparatively smooth. Most of my issues were related to understanding the toolchain,e.g., not knowing how arguments are passed to run.

With JavaFX and Gluon Substrate + GraalVM you can even compile you app to an executable.

missing methods in Android library

Hello, I've recently stumbled across this project from Gluon and I've been wondering for some days how the project actually works. I've read the source code, but it appears that no code is responsible for implementing the hundreds of classes that make up JavaFX. Does this mean that JavaFX can work out of the box on IOS and Android but there didn't use to be a way to compile the code to a native executable for said platforms? Thanks in advance

Don't tested memory difference myself yet but maybe your solution could be to convert to native with graalvm and gluon substrate? https://github.com/gluonhq/substrate

Link: https://github.com/Hakky54/certificate-ripper/releases

This is a very detailed video, thanks for sharing it! If anyone is looking for a small example java project creating native images please have a look at one of my repo here: GitHub - Certificate Ripper

It is an easy to use cli tool to extract the full chain of any server/website. The end user can inspect any sub fields and details easily on the command line. The native executables are available in the releases section see here: https://github.com/Hakky54/certificate-ripper/releases

See here for the github repo: GitHub - Certificate Ripper

Hello everyone, today I have released version 2 of Certificate Ripper which includes the following new features:

I also have another project which might be intresting, it is called Certificate Ripper It covers the following topics:

I build and published Certificate Ripper using GraalVM and the resulting native executable is amazing fast compared to a fat jar

Although this app is written in java it does not require java to run it. Native binaries for windows, linux and Mac are present in the release section here: https://github.com/Hakky54/certificate-ripper/releases