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I would pick Delphi (with which you can build Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS apps - https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi https://www.embarcadero

I would pick Delphi (with which you can build Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and iOS apps - https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi) Alternatively, RemObjects makes Elements, also a RAD programming environment in which you can code in Oxygene (their Object Pascal), C#, Swift, Java, Go, or Mercury (VB) and target all platforms: .Net, iOS and macOS, Android, WebAssemblyl, Java, Linux, Windows.

Imustaskforhelp 11mo ago
> Alternatively, RemObjects makes Elements, also a RAD programming environment in which you can code in Oxygene (their Object Pascal), C#, Swift, Java, Go, or Mercury (VB) and target all platforms: .Net, iOS and macOS, Android, WebAssemblyl, Java, Linux, Windows. Wait you can make Android applications with Golang without too much sorcery?? I just wanted to convert some Golang CLI applications to GUI's for Android and I instead ended up giving up on the project and just started recommending people to use termux. Please tell me if there is a simple method for Golang which can "just work" for basically being the Visualbasic-alike glue code to just glue CLI and GUI mostly.
- andsoitis 11mo ago
  > Wait you can make Android applications with Golang without too much sorcery?? Why don't you try it out: https://www.remobjects.com/elements/gold/ https://www.remobjects.com/elements/gold/
  - Imustaskforhelp 11mo ago
    It's really price-y and I am not sure about if I could create applications for f-droid if they aren't open source and how it might go with something like remobjects.com/gold/ One of the key principles of f-droid is that it must be reproducible (I think) or open source with it being able to be built by f-droid servers but I suppose reproducibility must require having this software which is paid in this case.
dardeaup 11mo ago
Yes, you can build cross-platform GUI apps with Delphi. However, that requires using Firemonkey (FMX). If you build a GUI app using VCL on Delphi, it's limited to Windows. If you build an app with Lazarus and LCL, you CAN have it work cross-platform.
- NetMageSCW 11mo ago
  I thought the point was that Windows apps will run on Linux under Wine (and macOS?) so using VCL is a cross-platform GUI development environment.
  - chungy 11mo ago
    You might as well use Lazarus and LCL. It'll give the best of all worlds.
  - dardeaup 11mo ago
    I made the clarification because the comment I replied to mentioned Android, iOS, and macOS. There are many who used Delphi before FMX appeared and I thought it would be helpful to point out that VCL only makes Windows executables.
aryonoco 11mo ago
I’m always on the hunt for single language cross platform solutions, and I thought I knew every player in the field but had not heard of Elements before. So I followed your link enthusiastically. But these are just some of the excerpts from the website: Java Build code for any of the billions of devices, PCs and servers that run JavaSE, JavaEE or the OpenJVM. .NET Core The cross-platform .NET Core runtime is the future of .NET and will fully replace the current classic .NET 4.x framework when .NET Core 5 ships in late 2020. It really seems like it was last updated sometime in the last decade. Not sure I want to base a future project on it.

Imustaskforhelp 11mo ago

> Alternatively, RemObjects makes Elements, also a RAD programming environment in which you can code in Oxygene (their Object Pascal), C#, Swift, Java, Go, or Mercury (VB) and target all platforms: .Net, iOS and macOS, Android, WebAssemblyl, Java, Linux, Windows. Wait you can make Android applications with Golang without too much sorcery?? I just wanted to convert some Golang CLI applications to GUI's for Android and I instead ended up giving up on the project and just started recommending people to use termux. Please tell me if there is a simple method for Golang which can "just work" for basically being the Visualbasic-alike glue code to just glue CLI and GUI mostly.

andsoitis 11mo ago
> Wait you can make Android applications with Golang without too much sorcery?? Why don't you try it out: https://www.remobjects.com/elements/gold/ https://www.remobjects.com/elements/gold/
- Imustaskforhelp 11mo ago
  It's really price-y and I am not sure about if I could create applications for f-droid if they aren't open source and how it might go with something like remobjects.com/gold/ One of the key principles of f-droid is that it must be reproducible (I think) or open source with it being able to be built by f-droid servers but I suppose reproducibility must require having this software which is paid in this case.

dardeaup 11mo ago

Yes, you can build cross-platform GUI apps with Delphi. However, that requires using Firemonkey (FMX). If you build a GUI app using VCL on Delphi, it's limited to Windows. If you build an app with Lazarus and LCL, you CAN have it work cross-platform.

NetMageSCW 11mo ago
I thought the point was that Windows apps will run on Linux under Wine (and macOS?) so using VCL is a cross-platform GUI development environment.
- chungy 11mo ago
  You might as well use Lazarus and LCL. It'll give the best of all worlds.
- dardeaup 11mo ago
  I made the clarification because the comment I replied to mentioned Android, iOS, and macOS. There are many who used Delphi before FMX appeared and I thought it would be helpful to point out that VCL only makes Windows executables.

aryonoco 11mo ago

I’m always on the hunt for single language cross platform solutions, and I thought I knew every player in the field but had not heard of Elements before. So I followed your link enthusiastically. But these are just some of the excerpts from the website: Java Build code for any of the billions of devices, PCs and servers that run JavaSE, JavaEE or the OpenJVM. .NET Core The cross-platform .NET Core runtime is the future of .NET and will fully replace the current classic .NET 4.x framework when .NET Core 5 ships in late 2020. It really seems like it was last updated sometime in the last decade. Not sure I want to base a future project on it.