I had to use OpenJFX for school recently, and while I still hate the Java language, I had to begrudgingly admit that JavaFX really wasn't that bad at all. It more or less did what I wanted it to do, the resulting GUI didn't look too bad, and it performed well enough. I ended up using it for a Clojure app a bit later.
It's good enough to where I think that if JavaFX had come out around the same time as Swing, the Java GUI would substantially more popular. As it stands, when I tell people I'm using JavaFX, they either don't know what I'm talking about, or they'll say "isn't that just Swing? Yuck!"
It's good enough to where I think that if JavaFX had come out around the same time as Swing, the Java GUI would substantially more popular. As it stands, when I tell people I'm using JavaFX, they either don't know what I'm talking about, or they'll say "isn't that just Swing? Yuck!"