Re:Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps?
by bdfh42 on Monday July 27, 2009 @05:14AM
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On the windows desktop platform you can use JScript and the .NET Framework to write just about any desktop application you can imagine.
This language (which is a good implementation of up-to-date ECMAScript) is somewhat light on texts however. There is a SAMS book by Justin Rogers which does cover the basics.
You might be better off looking at something like Adobe AIR which is an excellent approach to making a web style application run like a desktop application - well worth exploring and could be a good platform for developing portable (and applicable) JavaScript skills.
Re:Ask HN: Javascript for desktop apps?
by roam on Monday July 27, 2009 @05:39AM
(#725627)
Yep, I'd suggest giving Adobe Air a spin. With some plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript you can create a decent (enough) cross-platform application. If you need an idea to get started, have a look at http://github.com/roam/morse/tree/master.
This language (which is a good implementation of up-to-date ECMAScript) is somewhat light on texts however. There is a SAMS book by Justin Rogers which does cover the basics.
You might be better off looking at something like Adobe AIR which is an excellent approach to making a web style application run like a desktop application - well worth exploring and could be a good platform for developing portable (and applicable) JavaScript skills.