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The time is certainly ripe for a better language to step in and make cross-platform desktop application development easier. Seems like most anything you use (ba

The time is certainly ripe for a better language to step in and make cross-platform desktop application development easier. Seems like most anything you use (barring C++) necessitates shipping 20mb of dependencies. I miss the pay for what you use model.

jbarham 16y ago
Longer term JavaScript + HTML5 will get you most of the way there.
- antareus 16y ago
  What if I want to burn a CD? Or make something like Cover Flow?
  - jbarham 16y ago
    WebGL w/ HTML5 canvas will let you build Cover Flow. As to burning CD's, I did say that it would only get you "most of the way" there!
glhaynes 16y ago
It seems to me that one of the main benefits of desktop apps is that they are tightly coupled to the platform. Great cross-platform apps are very much the exception. So my vote goes to web for cross-platform while heavily optimizing everything else (everything client-side, at least) for the one platform it natively runs on. I don't see great user experience coming through a different route. If you do need native capabilities client-side, hybrid apps that embed a UI built using web technologies are a potential option sometimes, too.