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membrane
- phronmophobic/membrane: A Simple UI Library That Runs Anywhere
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London Clojurians Talk: Simpler User Interfaces with Membrane (by Adrian Smith)
User Interfaces are brittle, highly coupled, and inflexible. This talk will diagnose some of the root problems that plague user interfaces and show how a different approach can make UI programs dramatically simpler using Membrane (https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane).
- Membrane: A Simple UI Library That Runs Anywhere
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Textual in Clojure?
Closest I can think of is the terminal backend for membrane
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The shape of data
UI toolkits: https://github.com/HumbleUI/HumbleUI and https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane
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Thoughts on Clojure UI framework
It would be cool to see more libraries in this space. I've been working on a similar library, https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane. If you're not building on top of React, there's a huge untapped design space.
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Clojure GUI or front-end - what are the options?
I built membrane for exactly this use case, https://github.com/phronmophobic/membrane. The graphics and event model is pure clojure with support for multiple platforms. Membrane is less mature than some of the other JVM options, but Swing/AWT/JavaFX have their own quirks.
skija
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What UI framework does JetBrains use for it's IDE products?
I think IntelliJ was built on Swing and predates JavaFX… however, I’m curious if they’ve got plans to integrate their Skia integration work that backs desktop compose: https://github.com/JetBrains/skija
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The Decline and Fall of Java on the Desktop Part 1 (1999-2005)
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.
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I'm losing sleep over Java September 30, 1996
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 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 into the core platform itself to make building great UIs easy. The underlying 2D rendering just never worked efficiently.
I mean, even today, there's some serious performance issues with IntelliJ on 4k monitors with scaling. https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-526
When I look at where JetBrains is going, it sure seems like they are building on top of a better 2D engine, in this case, skia: https://github.com/JetBrains/skija.
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Running IntelliJ IDEA with JDK 17 for Better Render Performance with Metal
Under the covers it uses Skija which is a java wrapper for Skia which is a C++ 2D graphics engine (https://github.com/JetBrains/skija)
- Creating GUI without framework or library
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Clojure GUI or front-end - what are the options?
You can take a look at Skija from Jetbrains. It's a wrapper around the Skia library used by Chrome, Xamarin, LibreOffice, among others.
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ImgMacroBot — Telegram inline bot to generate image macros on the fly.
Technically, the bot is written in Kotlin using Ktor and Koin. It's a single endpoint web service, listening for Telegram Bot API webhooks. Text is drawn using Oswald font (I need Cyrillic, not supported in Anton) with Skija library, a Java wrapper for Skia, a 2D library powering your phone and browser. It is really cool and next time you need to make something with graphics, consider using Skia and its wrapper for your language. Next, generated images are upload to Imgur via its API (the documentation could be better). The whole thing is running on a free VM in Oracle Cloud. So, yeah, next time you need to host something lightweight — check out their offering. Oracle also provides a free DB instance, which I'm using to cache the links. Monitoring: Grafana Cloud (also free). Deployments: GitHub Actions + Ansible. So it didn't cost me a penny, except for ~50 hours of coding in two weeks on the evenings.
What are some alternatives?
HumbleUI - Clojure Desktop UI framework
cljfx - Declarative, functional and extensible wrapper of JavaFX inspired by better parts of react and re-frame
react-native - A framework for building native applications using React
react-native-web - Cross-platform React UI packages
libGDX - Desktop/Android/HTML5/iOS Java game development framework
Wails - Create beautiful applications using Go
JWM - Cross-platform window management and OS integration library for Java
viscous - pprint that respects your space and time
seesaw - Seesaw turns the Horror of Swing into a friendly, well-documented, Clojure library
nimview - A Nim/Webview based helper to create Desktop/Server applications with Nim/C/C++ and HTML/CSS
FlatLaf - FlatLaf - Swing Look and Feel (with Darcula/IntelliJ themes support)