> If you want to build a native app across platforms, you’re either: > - Writing it as many times as platforms you want to support > - Using some middle-man s

> If you want to build a native app across platforms, you’re either: > - Writing it as many times as platforms you want to support > - Using some middle-man software to write-once-compile-everywhere Weeeeeeeell, there's also a third option that a lot of game developers/engines use: write most of your code in cross-platform C/C++ as an object file and write platform-specific loaders that do the OS-specific bits to start your program, load your object file, and call your main entry point. It's not that bad. It's really the OS's that get nasty about adding more and more layers between our programs and the hardware they run on. Some of that is for good reason: ie security or debugging. But some aren't: vendor lock in, user tracking, backdoors.