JavaFX - first impressions from a Flash developer (me!)

First impressions of JavaFX, having used it for about an hour. Can't be bothered with proper sentences for this! Here's the bullets:

• The code IDE - NetBeans 6.5 - is great.
• There's no visual editor that I could find - export from PhotoShop, Illustrator. For free versions try Paint.NET and Inkscape.
  
• The language (JavaFX Script) seems like MXML and ActionScript rolled in to one language. A very different programming model to how I work. You never really write thing = new VisualThing(30, 20), it's all done with literals, so more like thing = VisualThing{param1:30, param2:20}.
  
• That takes some getting used to, but I imagine if there was a good reason to use JavaFX for a project I'd be fine.
  
• Certainly much easier to get started with than normal Java applets.
  
• You can also use straight Java classes.
• The plug-in update experience is still pretty horrible compared to Flash and even Silverlight.
• Lots of the demo's are using Java Web start, which is also horrible.
• Couldn't find anything about easy embedding - what's the Java version of swfobject?
• Run-time performance seems fine and renders graphics nicely.
• This technology has picked up seemingly zero traction amongst Flash community. Maybe will be a slow burner like Silverlight? Certainly Sun haven't thrown loads of money at Flashers like they did with Silverlight. (They probably can't afford to).
  
• I hope it's not a flop because competition within the plug-in space can only be a good thing, but we'll see.
• Nice range of 2D effects like we got with Flash 8 - drop shadow, blur etc
• No 3D as yet, but it's on the roadmap.
• Properly free and Open Source I think.
• You can also develop Flash / Flex for free with MXMLC compiler, so that's not a reason to use over Flash.
• Mobile version coming soon - don't know which platform supported yet - not iPhone or Android so who cares!
• Now that I've sniffed around it I have no reason to use it, so back to Flash for now! Wish Sun the best of luck, because the technology actually seems ok.