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This has to be a joke, right? I’m not informed enough to know, but it seems like I’ve only heard negative stuff about these.
by jtbayly 8y ago
This has to be a joke, right?
I’m not informed enough to know, but it seems like I’ve only heard negative stuff about these.
- ncmncm 8y agoYes. Snark. Then there was the Moonlight knockoff based on Mono. And Mono itself, of course. Dead ends before the project ever started, but they finished and shipped them. Let's not neglect .Net. But we're supposed to be talking about good products, not misbegotten ones. So: Apple Newton!
- bri3d 8y agoConceptually they all offered a way to write managed-language, write-once desktop applications. React Native and Electron carry the torch of this style of development now and both seem to be gaining traction in a way their predecessors couldn't. I like both, but can't help thinking that a UI framework designed as a UI framework would have served us better than CSS and the DOM in the long run. Put simply: Silverlight/WPF and C# could have been a much better Electron and TypeScript if the runtime were implemented in a less myopic way.
- hutzlibu 8y agoAbout AIR you probably heard hate from people who hated flash. I loved it, (the technology, not Adobe) but also switched plattforms. Node is a mess compared to it.
- karmakaze 8y agoNot kidding. I evaluated the capabilities of these platforms and there were some differences but all were better than existing solutions then and now. Flutter on the desktop might be a contender. Can't think of any others.