Desktop Development with TornadoFX

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A small Tetris clone called hellbound Tetris gets built with TornadoFX (a Kotlin wrapper for JavaFX) showing type-safe builders, typesafe stylesheets, dependency-injected scopes and an events bus, plus coroutines for the heartbeat. Claim: it takes about one fifth the code/time vs old Swing. Gotchas: DI singletons get garbage-collected if unused, UI updates must run on the FX thread (or use the coroutine bridge), and scenario tests suffer timing/race issues unless scoped.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:05Why I Still Program on the Desktop
3. 6:26Event Listener
4. 11:34Dependency Injection
5. 14:57Scenarios
6. 22:49Heartbeat Notification
7. 24:16Javafx Bridge
8. 27:05Typesafe Style Sheets
9. 31:49Presentation Mode
10. 35:24Questions

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