>For "frameworks", there's Silverlight, Adobe Air, Haxe, and—strangely enough—Flash itself... With the exception of Haxe (and maybe Air), these are all dead or

>For "frameworks", there's Silverlight, Adobe Air, Haxe, and—strangely enough—Flash itself... With the exception of Haxe (and maybe Air), these are all dead or dying technologies. Options 2 (Python/QT) works great, but is certainly more development hours and still requires platform-specific code. >It worked well enough for Minecraft! Minecraft was rewritten in C++ for mobile. It doesn't use Java.