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How to program for all 3 platforms at once
Renegade:
Isn't this the purported goal of Mono?
-Deozaan (December 05, 2010, 04:34 PM)
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This is the route that I'm going. But Java and RealBasic are also viable.
Some people are using Python for desktop software. Seen some and it looks ok.
I think the component market is one of the most important though. I'd rather buy functionality that performs better than I could do from experts in the field than fart around trying to half-ass it. C# and Java have good component markets, but I really don't know how the Java desktop component market is. Anyone know?
def:
I've heard Adobe AIR mentioned a lot lately. What code does it use? Java?
-kyrathaba (December 14, 2010, 09:35 AM)
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As far as I can tell, AIR supports different technologies, so the developer can use the one that he is most familar with:
* Flash Player (the developer can use Flash Builder, formerly known as Flex)
* HTML/CSS/JavaScript (rendered using the WebKit engine)
* PDF. However, I heard the PDF support in AIR is weak.
CodeTRUCKER:
^ Just DL'ed the 30-day trial.
I'd be interested in hearing from anybody who uses it too. :)
-40hz (December 06, 2010, 07:20 PM)
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I downloaded too. Looks pretty interesting, since I have a soft spot in my head, er, heart for Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. :-*
I am glad they have a 90-day money back policy. :deal:
It is also fairly expensive, , but one of the customers by the name of Jeff Ayling said, ""Love you guys - what a product! Your hard work now feeds my family!"
@Carol, please keep me in your loop. I would be specifically interested in how it compares to VB, if you can comment. - Thanks.
kyrathaba:
CodeTRUCKER, I'm interested in your experience. Please report after you've fooled with it awhile :) Also, I still think with your background in BASIC, the ideal next language for you would be Visual Basic .NET (freely available here). You can do 99.9% of anything you can envision, programming-task-wise, perhaps with the exception of very intensive graphics programming (although .NET languages are supporting OpenGL and DirectX) and writing very low-level routines.
steeladept:
I think the component market is one of the most important though. I'd rather buy functionality that performs better than I could do from experts in the field than fart around trying to half-ass it. C# and Java have good component markets, but I really don't know how the Java desktop component market is. Anyone know?
-Renegade (December 14, 2010, 07:18 PM)
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I know that it exists, and that is kind of saying something since I am not a programmer - well not really anyway ;). I can't talk to the quality of it, however. I have a few vendors that send me info on it at work because they know my company is a Java shop and they send their advertising to anyone who has an email in that domain. It is annoying because I don't know how they got my email - my guess is I downloaded a white-paper or something - but they do stop when I send the request to stop, so I can't complain too much. I just wish companies would stop advertising these white-papers that are just advertisements themselves, then force you to register just to find out that it is an advertisement. I have stopped getting any white-papers I need to register for because of that. >:(
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