Lets All Take A Giant Step Backwards

Question

[http://www.javafx.com/samples/BrickBreaker/]
So Sun put up a fancy "how to" JavaFX site thats supposed to show people how to program. Check out Figure 3, 4 and 6.
Im not trying to say that I know better than a Sun engineer, but does JavaFX just not have enums or what?
Almost every class is riddled with this stuff.
// Types of bricks
public def TYPE_BLUE = 0;
public def TYPE_BROKEN1 = 1;
public def TYPE_BROKEN2 = 2;
public def TYPE_BROWN = 3;
public def TYPE_CYAN = 4;
public def TYPE_GREEN = 5;
public def TYPE_GREY = 6;
public def TYPE_MAGENTA = 7;
public def TYPE_ORANGE = 8;
public def TYPE_RED = 9;
public def TYPE_VIOLET = 10;
public def TYPE_WHITE = 11;
public def TYPE_YELLOW = 12;
public class Brick extends CustomNode {
    // Type of the brick
    public-init var type: Integer;
        ImageView {
            image: bind Config.bricksImages[type]
def BRICKS_IMAGES = [
    "blue.png",
    "broken1.png",
    "broken2.png",
    "brown.png",
    "cyan.png",
    "green.png",
    "grey.png",
    "magenta.png",
    "orange.png",
    "red.png",
    "violet.png",
    "white.png",
    "yellow.png",
];The brick classes only state is an integer, which is an image[] offset. Woops?
public class Level extends CustomNode {
    // States
    // 0 - starting level
    // 1 - ball is catched
    // 2 - playing
    // 3 - game over
    var state = 0;Apparently they lack the standard library as well.
This is a gem from a "utils" class:
// Returns random integer number from 0 to max - 1
public function random(max: Integer): Integer {
    RANDOM.nextDouble() * max as Integer;
}Edited by: TuringPest on Dec 4, 2008 9:15 PM

Answer 1

Psyber wrote:
Ugh, just another language I'm going to have to learn dont bother.
Encephalopathic wrote:
but is JavaFx that important or popular that it is something worth learning now? nope. [the word on the street.|http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7hd8f/javafx_10_released/]
there are a few choice comments worth quoting but i cant in polite company.