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JavaFX is also statically typed, uinkle Groovy.The real competitor in my mind is Scala. But Scala only has a half-done Eclipse plugin, so you are tied mostly to SWT.Other issues: Neither Scala nor JavaFX support generics yet.Both Scala and JavaFX I believe have a runtime library that you need to include with your apps. Say for example you want to create a library (jar) for others to use. I guess you have to bundle it with the scala or javafx runtime jar too?Also in JavaFX you have to declare all a class's attributes first (like in C or C++). I can't see any reason why they would do that except to make it easier for the compiler (vs. the developer).