Looking at Music, an experiment with Kotlin, JavaFX, MIDI, and Virtual Threads by Vik Delporte

When a nerdy dad and music-playing son join forces and start experimenting with music and code, some nice things can happen. Did you ever present your music piece in a business dashboard with charts? Did you know that the FXGL game library can be used to generate a piano with fireworks? Let's look at music with the MelodyMatrix application and guide you through the process of how a small experiment turned into a full-blown project.  Join the first Devoxx talk with a live piano performance by a 14-year-old musician-coder, and let's have a battle between human and machine! Who is the best piano player? The musician or a few thousand Virtual Threads? And how far can we push the app's performance to send ByteArrays to an LED strip to react to the music?  Topics in this talk: Kotlin, Java, JavaFX, Gradle, FXGL, MIDI, Vaadin, GitHub Actions, JDeploy,…