Testing code on interfaces that lack a physical keyboard is generally a pain the ass. That plus the expenses of App Store lock in are why there are no convenien

Testing code on interfaces that lack a physical keyboard is generally a pain the ass. That plus the expenses of App Store lock in are why there are no convenient solutions for touch screens. The reason why everything else is either QT or JavaScript comes down to a single cross platform solution. As a full time JavaScript developer performance for JavaScript based applications is completely hit or miss. If the developer knows what they are doing they can write productivity software that, in most cases, performs faster than some desktop applications. Unfortunately most JavaScript developers don’t know what they are doing and many JavaScript based applications are slow.