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I think a lot of developers would break at the point of native cross platform support. I like writing stuff people use, that's cool, but it's a huge pain to wri

by lnanek2 12y ago

I think a lot of developers would break at the point of native cross platform support. I like writing stuff people use, that's cool, but it's a huge pain to write for and test on platforms I'm not going to use like Windows and Linux. I'll do that if you pay me, sure, but not for fun. Maybe not even for the fame of having a more popular fun project.

j45 12y ago
Cross-platform would likely require Java as a base runtime, something that might not be appetizing for some developers. With that being said there's many brilliant polyglot developers with lots of experience and maybe it's a task for developers with more years than average under their belt as the project will take more effort than an MVP.
- na85 12y ago
  Would you trust a full-disk encryption scheme running on top of a JVM? I sure wouldn't.
  - j45 12y ago
    Your point is valid :)
- xenadu02 12y ago
  No, it wouldn't require Java (thankfully). The problem is the IO driver abstractions available on each platform are wildly different. Getting working filesystem driver code on Windows (7/8), Mac OS, and Linux is a non-trivial task that requires a lot of kernel mode hacking. If you are willing to live with the performance impact, at least initially, you could use FUSE for MacOS/Linux. I don't recall if the Windows UMDF (User Mode Driver Framework) supports file system drivers or not.