tornadofx VS tornadofx2

And yet, the Kotlin specific bindings for it have seemingly been abandoned, and have not received any updates in years: https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx

Hi, at some point in the past I used mvvmFX and it was pretty nice to work with, but sadly it looks abandoned. So does drombler-fx which I remember looking into around that time. There was also tornado-fx (don't mind doing GUI code in Kotlin) but that's unmaintained now too. All that I could find today is Griffon, although that's clearly slowing down as well.

TornadoFx (JavaFX framework for Kotlin)

P.S. Yes, last official release is Java 8. But we all were using the last snapshot of https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx/tree/jdk10 published to Sonatype in the last years. Or tornadofx2 linked above.

If you are willing to consider Kotlin targeting JVM instead of pure Java, I would definitely recommend you to take a look at tornadofx. I have experience with both frameworks (mvvmfx and tornadofx), and I prefer the latter.

I have seen some scattered advice against it, but the syntax seems nice. A port for java 11+ is also available: [TornadoFX 2]{https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx2}

It is great, but pretty much abandoned. Edvin the original author is still around, answering questions and ready to make releases. But he is not going to develop it further. There were some contributions from community to https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx2 but negligible at this point.

Have a look at https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx2

I don't use TornadoFX but it looks like the author is continuing TornadoFX here: https://github.com/edvin/tornadofx2

Another point. The referred Badass plugin required java 11. And the current stable published version of Tornadofx requires java 8. There is another branch that supposedly works for JDK 10 and beyond. There is also another repo called tornadofx2, but it is not maintened. I think Edvin decided to keep with gis original repo. There are other ways to wrap a jvm application inside a native executable, though.