If you want to work in HTML5, Electron or Cordova can both take you pretty far. http://electron.atom.io http://electron.atom.io https://cordova.apache.org http

If you want to work in HTML5, Electron or Cordova can both take you pretty far. http://electron.atom.io http://electron.atom.io https://cordova.apache.org https://cordova.apache.org This won't work for all apps, but (for example) a lot of simple mobile apps use Cordova with faux-native UI frameworks, and there are a lot of graphics-lite games out there using NW.js or Electron on desktop.