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Makes me think whoever comes up with a mainstreamed way to do cross-platform mobile apps in Python will easily capture a large share of recent college grads, to

by pizza 7y ago

Makes me think whoever comes up with a mainstreamed way to do cross-platform mobile apps in Python will easily capture a large share of recent college grads, too, then.

sametmax 7y ago
Jolla did and failed.
- baybal2 7y ago
  Well, Jolla was a meme company. The best shot a normal Linux had on mobile was during N9 era, and late Meegos. After that things went sour: - GTK+/glib dev community began to wither simply because of older members retiring, and no new blood - DRM flamewar with record labels - Android diverted a great amount of community resources - Monopolisation of smartphone SoC market. - Elop...
  - ahartmetz 7y ago
    Not Elop really. The Nokia board had already decided to sell to MSFT and brought in Elop to do it. If the N9 hadn't been delayed by years, things could have gone very differently. In retrospect, the biggest surprise was that the years delayed N9 actually turned out to be very good. Extremely delayed products are more often bad than good when they are finally released.
  - abdulmuhaimin 7y ago
    RIP the late Meego OS. Im still salty with how Nokia murder it. Its like a healthy beautiful baby just born and then the parent buried it alive to focus on their terminally ill older brother. However, the parents cant handle the debt and commit suicide, entrusting older brother to his rich uncle. Sure enough, the older bro didnt live long either. After a long coma, the plug was pulled on the older brother's life. Even his rich uncle cant save him. What a waste of resource
dvhh 7y ago
What about webasm ?
Iolaum 7y ago
There is the beeware project trying to do just that. I don't think it has enough people contributing to get there at a reasonable pace though.
oblio 7y ago
> cross-platform mobile apps Against platforms actively fighting you? Good luck with that!
DeonPenny 7y ago
The did and called it kotlin. Those people were Google and Jetbrain.
- RhodesianHunter 7y ago
  Except Kotlin isn't Python, it's Java with modern syntax and coroutines.
tokai 7y ago
Kivy already does that?
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pjmlp 7y ago
Symbian supported Python actually.
pvinis 7y ago
Ah that's easy. Just get python to js with wasm, then use react native. That would be interesting to see!

by pizza 7y ago

Makes me think whoever comes up with a mainstreamed way to do cross-platform mobile apps in Python will easily capture a large share of recent college grads, too, then.

sametmax 7y ago

Jolla did and failed.

baybal2 7y ago
Well, Jolla was a meme company. The best shot a normal Linux had on mobile was during N9 era, and late Meegos. After that things went sour: - GTK+/glib dev community began to wither simply because of older members retiring, and no new blood - DRM flamewar with record labels - Android diverted a great amount of community resources - Monopolisation of smartphone SoC market. - Elop...
- ahartmetz 7y ago
  Not Elop really. The Nokia board had already decided to sell to MSFT and brought in Elop to do it. If the N9 hadn't been delayed by years, things could have gone very differently. In retrospect, the biggest surprise was that the years delayed N9 actually turned out to be very good. Extremely delayed products are more often bad than good when they are finally released.
- abdulmuhaimin 7y ago
  RIP the late Meego OS. Im still salty with how Nokia murder it. Its like a healthy beautiful baby just born and then the parent buried it alive to focus on their terminally ill older brother. However, the parents cant handle the debt and commit suicide, entrusting older brother to his rich uncle. Sure enough, the older bro didnt live long either. After a long coma, the plug was pulled on the older brother's life. Even his rich uncle cant save him. What a waste of resource

dvhh 7y ago

What about webasm ?

Iolaum 7y ago

There is the beeware project trying to do just that. I don't think it has enough people contributing to get there at a reasonable pace though.

oblio 7y ago

> cross-platform mobile apps Against platforms actively fighting you? Good luck with that!

DeonPenny 7y ago

The did and called it kotlin. Those people were Google and Jetbrain.

RhodesianHunter 7y ago
Except Kotlin isn't Python, it's Java with modern syntax and coroutines.

tokai 7y ago

Kivy already does that?

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pjmlp 7y ago

Symbian supported Python actually.

pvinis 7y ago

Ah that's easy. Just get python to js with wasm, then use react native. That would be interesting to see!