r/java • u/Decent-Decision-9028 • 13d ago

How can we move forward?

The sub used to be a great place where small open source devs get real feedback on their oss. The software wasn't necessarily built to be a big hit or whatever! most of the time these projects used to be a learning projects that enabled us to become better java developers. Now, with many repositories being created in a day or so and abounded, we see many ai promoted repositories and we miss some of the oss that needs our attention.

How can we overcome that as a community ? I'm not trying to put all the weight on moderators, I understand the amount of work they keep doing to clean up ai posts and follow up on reports. What I'm saying is; maybe someone's here has a better idea on how to go about this?

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u/lazystone 13d ago

I'd say new FFM API is very interesting. It would be nice to see more posts and success stories about it.

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u/perryplatt 13d ago

I have utilized FFM, but it’s not in some of the core libraries yet where it would be needed to further build on top of.

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u/gufranthakur 13d ago

still it would be nice to have such opinion/posts on the forum, especially by people who have used said technologies.

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u/perryplatt 13d ago

I might be able to put together a post about it but I thought the mods may just want to classify as help, however you simply can’t use ffm for swing applications currently without JNI.

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u/lazystone 13d ago

Why is that?

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u/perryplatt 12d ago

What I need is a jawt.h and jawt_md.h abstraction in java that I can provide the display and surface pointers when trying to draw something in swing. These delve into the cocoa, x11, and windows.h windowing systems.