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Josef Kenny · #21 June 19, 2008, 12:37 PM

Originally Posted by Danny Stewart

I hate it because it requires an additional platform to run applications on top of. It's nice to have things be cross-platform like that, but I don't like running applications on top of a compatibility layer. Native apps all the way.

QFT/+1/Hoo rah.

Superkid11 · #22 June 19, 2008, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Danny Stewart

I hate it because it requires an additional platform to run applications on top of. It's nice to have things be cross-platform like that, but I don't like running applications on top of a compatibility layer. Native apps all the way.

So it's like Java that way?

As long as that doesn't make them slow I'm not sure why it's a big deal.

Kody · #23 June 19, 2008, 1:57 PM

Originally Posted by Danny Stewart

I hate it because it requires an additional platform to run applications on top of. It's nice to have things be cross-platform like that, but I don't like running applications on top of a compatibility layer. Native apps all the way.

A valid reason. But without setups like this it'd be even harder to have programs that worked cross-platform like this. Ones that have to be specifically made, then maintained for multiple OS's are hard to manage and require a lot of money / programmers.

So while native apps are aw some and I'd also prefer them, I like it when innovations are made like Air, Ajax, etc... so we can have more productivity and things linking together.

Just think if HTML web pages only worked on windows..

Josef Kenny · #24 June 19, 2008, 2:28 PM

Strictly speaking, they should only work on NeXTstep if they worked on one OS

Superkid11 · #25 July 20, 2008, 4:18 PM

It would probably be better if only the installers required the virtual environment, and the installer geared the application to run natively.
I was initially under the impression that that was how it worked. I've been doing a lot of reading on AIR lately and I do think it can overcome its limitations. Adobe's good like that. It's made me want to learn Actionscript more. ... I wonder if games published for Air instead of Flash would still have the blurry sprite issue?

Oh and Rat... isn't game programming in C++ a huge pain in the ass? That's why Flash and Java even exist. Oh and Game Maker, but it's not cross-platform... yet. (They're working on a C++ runner for it.)

Sorry, old topic, I've just been fascinated with this lately. ._.

Josef Kenny · #26 July 21, 2008, 8:04 AM

Originally Posted by Superkid11

Oh and Rat... isn't game programming in C++ a huge pain in the ass? That's why Flash and Java even exist. Oh and Game Maker, but it's not cross-platform... yet. (They're working on a C++ runner for it.)

And we all know that high profile professional game studios use Game Maker

(Don't get me wrong, I love it)