Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps? by nanijoe on Monday July 23, 2012 @10:54AM (#4281253)

What do you develop Windows app with? I've been toying with making a Windows version of web only app I am working on, but so far the only option seems to be using C# with .NET. Are there any other options out there? (Not that I have an issue with C#)

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps? by kaitnieks on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @05:04AM (#4284885)

We are using Delphi. C# is a great language and .NET is fine if you're designing for a specific customer but it's (in our opinion) not a viable option for shareware apps, as it generates decompilable executables that require a large framework to run. Most people have .NET runtime framework installed, others have no problem downloading it but it is still a problem for a percentage of the users.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from Desktop apps? by jetti on Monday July 23, 2012 @01:07PM (#4281955)

I'm not the OP but there are a bunch of options:

- C++ (with all of the variety of GUI frameworks) - Delphi - Java - D (again with GUI frameworks) - Python

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