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All these multi-platform kits are getting fatiguing. Electron, sciter, neutralino, proton native...there are hundreds of others, and now Flet. Reminds me of the

All these multi-platform kits are getting fatiguing. Electron, sciter, neutralino, proton native...there are hundreds of others, and now Flet. Reminds me of the Google/Apple app stores, where there are 100+ solutions for the same problem, and all of them suck. I wonder if we really did a good thing by building this "app culture" where everything needs a little "app" as a way of extracting a little more money from people. Although "app" means application, the word "app" is apt because it signifies the commercialization of applications into advertisements-as-a-program, in the same way that YouTube transformed videos into advertisements-as-a-video. What a mess.

exe34 2y ago
my issue with these hacks is that the moment you want to do something not already implemented, you have to now learn not only how to do it on the original platform but also figure out how to hack it into the hack. e.g. keep screen on, Bluetooth, gps, etc.
brigadier132 2y ago
All of the good things you know came from a sea of bad things. There does not exist a world where only "perfectly designed" products and tools exist.
- vouaobrasil 2y ago
  But your statement is presupposing a world where the "sea of bad things to good things" has no flexibility in how it works. I am proposing that the current method where software is developed to go after microprofits through advertising and trivial functionality, and on a closed, corporation run platform, IS A BAD THING.
  - brigadier132 2y ago
    Your comment has gone on a complete tangent that makes 0 sense. This is open source software. People decided to build this and give it away for free.
    - vouaobrasil 2y ago
      I disagree. Every time someone contributes to something, it evolves the ecosystem that in turn molds the social atmosphere around it. And I was more referring to our support of Apple and Google that in turn created the system that supports so many app frameworks.

exe34 2y ago

my issue with these hacks is that the moment you want to do something not already implemented, you have to now learn not only how to do it on the original platform but also figure out how to hack it into the hack. e.g. keep screen on, Bluetooth, gps, etc.

brigadier132 2y ago

All of the good things you know came from a sea of bad things. There does not exist a world where only "perfectly designed" products and tools exist.

vouaobrasil 2y ago
But your statement is presupposing a world where the "sea of bad things to good things" has no flexibility in how it works. I am proposing that the current method where software is developed to go after microprofits through advertising and trivial functionality, and on a closed, corporation run platform, IS A BAD THING.
- brigadier132 2y ago
  Your comment has gone on a complete tangent that makes 0 sense. This is open source software. People decided to build this and give it away for free.
  - vouaobrasil 2y ago
    I disagree. Every time someone contributes to something, it evolves the ecosystem that in turn molds the social atmosphere around it. And I was more referring to our support of Apple and Google that in turn created the system that supports so many app frameworks.