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Or just interpreters in general...

• danpalmer 6y ago
  I disagree. If you follow the game engine analogy/thought experiment, I think there's much more that could be done. There's a language, yes. There's also a runtime. There may be an interpreter depending on the language. There's probably also a defined way of getting UI on to the screen in a platform independent way. There's probably also higher level concepts, maybe something that works a bit like a service worker, to use web terminology. There's likely to be a database of some sort, an app deployment system, software updates. I'm not proposing a specific technology, but rather pointing out that there are a lot of parallels, and by realising that we're now using web technologies for shipping apps that aren't otherwise websites, maybe we could open up a lot of new potential solutions that might be even better.
  • AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
    Except that you don't need to create anything new to be there. Java is already there right now. It has literally everything you listed.
    • nitrogen 6y ago
      Swing got an undeservedly bad reputation due to the bad default LAF. I wrote some pretty sweet stuff in Swing. Anyway Qt is reasonably close as well, but with a compile per platform.
  • mech422 6y ago
    There are interpreters that have offered those services for years. Hell, Didn't Visual Basic include a GUI layer 20 years ago? I'm not arguing the utility of what your describing, just pointing out its not a new concept...