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Re:Flash Is Dead: What Technologies Might Be Next? by amelius on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:09AM (#14918301)
Not really. I'm building apps on Web/iOS/Android. And it sucks writing the same code for three different APIs.

It's very intellectually unfulfilling work.

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Re:Flash Is Dead: What Technologies Might Be Next? by var_explained on Thursday August 03, 2017 @09:16AM (#14919228)
OP author here; in another blog post I explored the growth in questions about some cross-platform solutions. Ionic (now Ionic2) has been growing quickly, and React Native is among the fastest growing tags on the site. So you may get your wish!

https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/05/16/exploring-state-mobile...

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Re:Flash Is Dead: What Technologies Might Be Next? by cm2187 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @07:44AM (#14918682)
I have high hopes on WebAssembly. It's not the current intention but it could become a universal virtual machine.
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Re:Flash Is Dead: What Technologies Might Be Next? by swiley on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:23AM (#14918351)
Write command line apps in C. The only platform that can't run them is iOS.
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Re:Flash Is Dead: What Technologies Might Be Next? by thealistra on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:33AM (#14918405)
iOS can run Objective-C which is a superset of C, you can run the code natively and use Objective-C to display it.
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Re:Flash Is Dead: What Technologies Might Be Next? by swiley on Thursday August 03, 2017 @06:37AM (#14918421)
iOS lacks fork and kills your app if it doesn't yeild for some number of milliseconds. It also lacks a shell and a video terminal emulator which are kind of nice to have for these sorts of apps.
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