>> I'm sympathetic to people who want to develop portable GUI apps across Linux/Windows/OS X. I am too, but I wonder whether it is even a relevant goal anymore

>> I'm sympathetic to people who want to develop portable GUI apps across Linux/Windows/OS X. I am too, but I wonder whether it is even a relevant goal anymore. It's one of those things that has always been a topic of conversation, and has never really happened in a way that a mass of end users has adopted. Everyone who ever ran a java desktop app on Windows back in the day probably has some theory of why, but I think it was mostly because there was never really a strong need on the user side, despite the idea being so attractive to devs. Now... I don't even know what the world of work is going to look like in ten years... Android? Windows? Linux? Mac? Tablet? Phone? Laptop? All of the above and more, I assume, and the whole interface portability thing seems to be heading down the exact same road that it headed down on the desktop, i.e. either write native or accept some lesser solution.