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Some web applications are more platform specific than others. Since Linux is the most popular OS for running web applications it seems reasonable to assume it w
by jiggy2011 13y ago
Some web applications are more platform specific than others.
Since Linux is the most popular OS for running web applications it seems reasonable to assume it was chosen for a reason and therefor web developers would be worse off if it were not available.
- mynameisvlad 13y ago> Some web applications are more platform specific than others. Rarely. As I said before, you're not developing for Linux when you make a web application. You're developing for Rails/PHP/whathaveyou. These are all OS-agnostic and can be run on any OS. I can run my PHP app on my Macbook, my Linux server, or my friend's Windows desktop. They all work. Because it's not meant to be built for a particular OS. I don't understand how you can be this stubborn about it. If the language can be run on any number of platforms, then, by definition, it's not an application for one specific platform.
- jiggy2011 13y agoI mean that a very large share of these applications are in practise deployed to Linux. If you total the $ revenue of these applications you would no doubt come to a very large figure.
- mynameisvlad 13y agoSo? That's not the discussion at stake here. We're talking about apps being written for Linux vs OSX. By definition, a web app is not written for a particular platform (with certain exceptions like ASP.net). If anything, it'd fall into its own category.
- jiggy2011 13y agoBy that definition you can only count applications that rely on proprietary OS features, which you generally don't have with an open source OS (that's sort of the point). I don't think it's invalid to describe a web app deployed to Linux or an embedded system running Linux as a "Linux app" but I guess that is really semantics.