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The Red Language (which I just learned about yesterday) looks pretty good in that respect. One binary, no dependencies. http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html ht
by Turing_Machine 9y ago
The Red Language (which I just learned about yesterday) looks pretty good in that respect. One binary, no dependencies.
http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html http://www.red-lang.org/p/about.html
I gather the GUI story on Linux isn't great at present, and there's no iOS support, but all of the other important bases seem to be covered.
I've tinkered with it a bit today, and so far it's as advertised.
- mwcampbell 9y ago> other important bases seem to be covered Except accessibility for blind people (through screen readers), and probably people with other disabilities as well. I just tried the Red GUI with the NVDA screen reader on Windows, and it's mostly inaccessible. BTW, this is a problem with nearly every GUI toolkit developed from the ground up (that is, from the host OS's low-level graphics primitives). The exceptions are mostly the big, "bloated" GUI toolkits, like those provided by the major operating systems, the major browser engines (and by extension Electron), Qt, JavaFX (though only on Windows and Mac), and maybe a few others. Edit: SWT is one of the most accessible options for cross-platform desktop applications. That's mostly because SWT primarily uses the host platforms' native widgets. But it does have some custom controls, and for those, it implements the platform-specific accessibility APIs. I understand that a lot of people don't like the conventional desktop look and feel though.