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> cross-platform GUI software package And cross-platform APIs, cross-platform libc, cross-platform networking... and then the same shuffle on mobile, making su
by qsort 4y ago
> cross-platform GUI software package
And cross-platform APIs, cross-platform libc, cross-platform networking... and then the same shuffle on mobile, making sure everything is compatible? Supporting x86 and ARM?
The web does suck, there's no getting around that. HTML and the DOM are garbage even at their original purpose, let alone at writing applications, and everything on top of that is a kludge on a kludge on a kludge.
But let's not pretend dealing with OS APIs from the 90s is much better. We've been trying to get away from that as early as we could with e.g. Java.