"boost and add CW" would be The Greatest Feature

unfortunately I'm too busy writing a fucking Matrix client for every single platform ever made to fumble my way through Ruby enough to PR this

how the fuck did I talk myself into this

I'm feeling like I should put together a prototype client in JavaFX first, since I actually know how to use JFX

maybe I should write it in Java and use Avian, and pretend it's not written in Java :P

that pretty much guarantees nobody will use it though, since there's a really large stigma against Java

(and Avian is a minimal JVM that can be used as a bootstrapper, making a Java app act like a native app in every way imaginable)

poll: would you use the fact a chat app is written in Java as a reason not to use it, even though it doesn't require you to install the JRE?

I would be like, 10,000x more comfortable if I could write this in Java

this is Avian, by the way: https://readytalk.github.io/avian/

lets you bundle a classpath and application into a native executable, and you can even completely hide the fact the program is Java from the user

if this wasn't an open source project this would be decided already :/

also, to people that would avoid it because it's written in Java: would you also avoid it if it was written in Kotlin?