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Today the preview release of JavaFX was announced. It would be nice to say that many people/developers waited for this release, but the truth is nobody (really) cares. The sad thing is that they are right because the preview release is just a joke. I followed the JavaFX road since F3 times and I expected a lot from it. I did some tutorials and I saw real potential in the technology. However, the slow slow development, the bad marketing work, and the buggy presentations constantly disappointed me. I talked with some Sun engineers at the JavaDeus about these problems and they convinced that the preview release will be worth waiting, but I am more than disappointed with this release. After trying this release, I am pretty sure that JavaFX fails on the desktop (maybe the mobile release can change this). Here is why:

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Wow, I was really astonished today. I haven’t followed the whole ‘KDE 4 sucks’ discussion the last weeks (months?). Mostly because I like KDE 4 and I don’t care too much about trolls. I write ‘too’ much since not every troll is really troll and troll statements can also contain a certain truth. As a developer I am used to critics and guess what I like! Ok, I have my pride and most of the times I have a hard not taking it personal, but I think critics are a driving force for innovation/improvements, therefore, it’s worth to embrace them.

KDE 4 received a lot of critics and I can imagine that it must be hard for any developer to see that his/her ‘baby’ is getting beat up. However, the reaction of the KDE 4 developers was the worst they could do: ‘We don’t need user, we need contributors’. Well, I consider myself a user, although, I sometimes report bugs and recommend it to friends. So I don’t contribute too much to KDE and I am sure that KDE will survive without. Actually, KDE could survive with only a handful of people, but what’s the point in it? I thought KDE was about users (especially KDE 4 should be for users) and now the people behind KDE say users don’t matter? I don’t want to start a flame war here, so I stop my discussion now. I will cross the ‘K’ in Ubuntu and will switch to Gnome where I feel more welcome. Thanks KDE for the last view years.

The insanity (excerpt):

http://troy-at-kde.livejournal.com/17753.html

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3535

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3535

Ubuntu’s code of conduct:

http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct