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The Birth of the JavaFX Script Compiler

Today a new JavaFX Script compiler incubator project, openjfx-compiler went live. Yes, it has source code, issues, mailing lists and a wiki, but the compiler itself actually does very little right now (although Chris Oliver did offer a nice tease). So why open it now? The answer is that our team wants to open not just its source, but the design and development of the compiler itself. We are also asking for feedback on the JavaFX Script language to make it fully specified and compilable.

If you have an interest in watching or participating in a compiler for JavaFX Script, please join our project and help shape its future. If the past couple of months is any indication, it's going to be fast, furious, and fun!

Comments

• Rockin. Awesome. So glad you guys are starting to open code/projects up early, makes it much more fun; I feel more like a participant instead of marketing road-kill. By the way, since Per Bothner is on the team now--what is the relationship (if any) between Kawa and the Kawa libraries and the openjfx compiler? Is there any intention of somehow generalizing what comes out of this compiler project?

  Regardless, very exciting. Thanks for posting about this.
  Patrick

  Posted by: pdoubleya on July 20, 2007 at 07:23 AM

• Wow, this is too cool.
  If javascript did this in the beginning we would have had a better time with it.
  I bet the IDE will be quite productive.

  
  pros and cons:
  cons: gotta learn another language
  pros: gotta learn another language

  
  -Carl
  

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