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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by yellowapple on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:33PM (#14849906)
Yeah, that last justification is one with which I wholeheartedly disagree. Cross-platform done right is a good thing, and yet here we have Apple explicitly describing how it wants app developers to not use cross-platform technologies and instead rely on Apple-specific interfaces. In other words: "screw developer productivity, if you're not exclusively targeting our platforms, you're doing it wrong".
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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by natecavanaugh on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:04PM (#14850255)
Is there an example of "cross-platform done right"? I have yet to see a case where an app is able to both exploit the depth of every devices capability and the breadth of multiple hardware and software configurations, without becoming a platform unto itself. I'm not saying cross-platform isn't possible, but "done right" is a pretty vague target to hit.
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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by eridius on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @07:57PM (#14852856)
Cross-platform done right is a unicorn that doesn't exist.
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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by melling on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:01PM (#14850213)
What's a good cross-platform toolkit that exists today?
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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by secstate on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:33PM (#14850562)
Depends on your end goal. But I'd say Tk/Tcl and Qt have done alright for themselves. They'll never be confused for native, but for a solid GUI app, they're quite solid.

Then there's always Unity ...

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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by cjensen on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:37PM (#14850602)
I'm a Qt programmer. It's very very good because it attempts to look as much as possible like a native app rather than forcing a "cross-platform look and feel" like Google has been doing lately.

But it still feels wrong on the Mac. Little UI details which just "aren't done" on the Mac. Plus Qt is always a year or two behind on everything means that when MacOS alters or refines a UI element that Qt apps will still be doing things the old way.

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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by melling on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:45PM (#14850672)
Tcl/Tk. Yeah, I worked with it for several years. It was great to work with and highly underrated.

Safe to say I would never write a commercial consumer facing app with that.

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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by lukechilds on Wednesday July 26, 2017 @02:37AM (#14854060)
libui looks amazing but it's not quite ready yet https://github.com/andlabs/libui
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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by omg_ketchup on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @04:22PM (#14851511)
Definitely Unity.
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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by ant6n on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:52PM (#14850738)
Opengl
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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by melling on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:11PM (#14850933)
That’s pretty low level and I don’t think most people would consider that a toolkit.
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Re:“We will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player ... by BenjiWiebe on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @07:04PM (#14852603)
wxWidgets
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