Re:ReactOS 0.4.4 Released
by stymaar on Friday February 17, 2017 @05:38AM
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> It's developers who are pushing for JavaScript, not users.
It's the business which is pushing for JavaScript: for most product nowadays you need to support both Windows and MacOS. Now you need to consider the following trade-off: do you want native apps at the expense of two code bases ? Or do you prefer a portable one at the expense of quality ?
In many cases the answer is a cleary the second option. Now you just have to chose which portable runtime you want: Java like it's 2000 or the web which is the current norm.
An hybrid approach is Qt since it wants to be a tool to build portable native apps, but in fact they are neither really native (the UI doesn't feel right) nor really portable (it often doesn't work out of the box).
It's the business which is pushing for JavaScript: for most product nowadays you need to support both Windows and MacOS. Now you need to consider the following trade-off: do you want native apps at the expense of two code bases ? Or do you prefer a portable one at the expense of quality ?
In many cases the answer is a cleary the second option. Now you just have to chose which portable runtime you want: Java like it's 2000 or the web which is the current norm.
An hybrid approach is Qt since it wants to be a tool to build portable native apps, but in fact they are neither really native (the UI doesn't feel right) nor really portable (it often doesn't work out of the box).