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What is the alternative to building a cross-platform desktop app that isn't tied to the browser security model? Build a different app for every platform?
by dnissley 12y ago
What is the alternative to building a cross-platform desktop app that isn't tied to the browser security model? Build a different app for every platform?
- api 12y agoQt and Java.
- shadowfox 12y agoOr WX widgets.
- rhengles 12y agoWhen I set out, a few years ago, to build a gui app in JS in Windows (but cross-platform), I found RingoJS which is a wrapper around Java. My entire app could be in a single .js file, with access to all Java libs. For the widget library, I chose SWT. I built a few very simple apps, despite having never programmed in Java before. Later, I found how to run my .js file directly with RhinoJS and SWT from the command line. I'm pretty confident that this is the simplest way to build desktop apps in JS in Windows :)
- dkersten 12y agoQt