Building Dragons. Together.

Building Dragons. Together.

In May 2019, I decided to create a JavaFX application written entirely in Scala. Being new to Scala and not very proficient in JavaFX, I knew I quickly would become quite a pain in the backside of those who know way better than me and are willing to offer help and guidance.

To give something back to the community, I decided to make my work open so everyone interested can follow my endeavor.

If there is anything you want to know and not addressed here, feel free to open an issue, and I do my best to come back to you as soon as possible.

And why dragons anyway?

In my imagination, Dragons are creatures challenging to create, and, even more, challenging to handle. Building software from scratch is already a complex process, but doing so using technology entirely new for the creator makes the already complicated process difficult.

Another analogy could be Goethe’s poem “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice”: The apprentice of a sorcerer starts a process he barely understands and is not able to handle or even stop without help from his mentor.

Since I do not like this poem very much, it almost comes to a bad end, and a tamed Dragon could be a powerful and useful thing, I decided to keep with the Dragon image.