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Re:Flutter desktop shells by resoluteteeth on Thursday April 25, 2019 @12:58PM (#19750103)
If you want what you had with Visual Basic in 1996, you're in luck: you can just use C# with winforms, which is like a much better version of VB6.

Unfortunately, in 2019 cross-platform compatibility for native apps has only gotten harder (good luck supporting windows, mac, linux, android, and ios), which is why people tend to default to making web apps (or hybrid solutions using frameworks like React Native) rather than native apps, and this has perhaps also created a vicious circle by reducing interest in what cross-platform options there are (QT and javaFX).

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Re:Flutter desktop shells by WoodenChair on Thursday April 25, 2019 @08:41PM (#19753874)
> which is why people tend to default to making web apps (or hybrid solutions using frameworks like React Native) rather than native apps

Not sure why people keep making the claim that native is dying. More and more people are doing their computing on their smartphones and the vast majority of the top 100 apps on both iOS and Android are built in Objective-C/Swift/Java/Kotlin. It seems to me like the main people pushing the whole web app/PWA renaissance are web developers who resent the fact that the web is dying.

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