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Cross platform mattered a lot more when you were dealing with Sparc, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, Intel along with AIX, Sys-V, BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, etc. Today your se

by snarfy 8y ago

Cross platform mattered a lot more when you were dealing with Sparc, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, Intel along with AIX, Sys-V, BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, etc. Today your server is x64 and it's running Linux. Your client is a browser.

pjmlp 8y ago
There are many other computers in the world than just desktop and servers.
- scarface74 8y ago
  Except for mobile, most of those you would be better off just using C.
  - pjmlp 7y ago
    Except that the people actually paying for development contracts think otherwise.