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Linux is the reason Windows apps are bloated these days
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This is such a hilariously bad take. I like how "I can't use Win32 on Linux" morphed into "re-write the whole app in Javascript just so I can use Electron."
Meanwhile, Wine and QT are like: "am I a joke to you?"
I'll add that (IMO) a lot of applications are becoming increasingly malicious, although less-so in the desktop space. I'm happy that devs like this are forced to quasi-sandbox their crap into a browser. Actually, if anyone knows how to crack into an Electron app in order to restore local plugins, user-scripts, and sandbox security controls, let me know. Or just liberate the guts into a local web app instead so I can use a real browser? This trend could be very useful for local security if those features become available.
I can code in C on all 3 (more if you include BSDs). You would not believe how amazing my skills are to avoid platform specific dependencies in a language that predates all these OS.
How do you deal with platform specific stuff? I am talking about desktop API and friends. (If that's even a thing in your problem space). /gen
SDL or
#ifdefs.You can consider nappgui sdk which will handle it
https://nappgui.com/en/home/web/home.html
However because this is C, let’s just use libraries GLib/GTK is already cross-platform.
Code Example/Build process https://wrycode.com/gtk3-cross-compile/
There are other examples/libraries so it depends on what you need.
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