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> would you rather have three teams developing one app on three platforms (windows, mac, linux) or one team developing one app for all platforms? I would rathe
by thomascgalvin 5y ago
> would you rather have three teams developing one app on three platforms (windows, mac, linux) or one team developing one app for all platforms?
I would rather have one team developing a cross-platform application in a language that isn't Javascript.
- ReleaseCandidat 5y ago> I would rather have one team developing a cross-platform application in a language that isn't Javascript. So, use one of the many languages that compile to JS. Starting with TypeScript. Or (alphabetically) ClojureScript, Elm, PureScript, or Rescript.
- pitaj 5y agoWe'd love to. What do you suggest we use? Java swing? C Gtk? C++ Qt? All of those often look ugly and are harder to use.
- Too 5y agoIt's amazing how bad the options for native UI frameworks are, even without considering cross-platform, more so once you do. Android is actually decent but with caveat it only works on Android... Windows had a decent WPF but then they came up with 5 other framworks that got rebranded and now nobody knows what to use anymore. Is WinUI the latest and greatest there? Wouldn't be cross platform anyway. Perhaps Unity? But that's more tailored for 3d scenes, rather than UI widgets. Genuinely looking for suggestions on what is the best choice to pick there.
- purplerabbit 5y agoGiven that there's no other language that works cross-platform with as little jank as JS, I don't think that distaste is adequate reason to avoid using it
- egeozcan 5y agoWhy do you care which language software is developed in? Should I not use anything that uses ML if I dislike python?
- worik 5y agoHTML/CSS/WASM?? Would that work? I am not a front end kind of developer, I am a "plumber". So it is a genuine question.