On Monday, 25 August 2014 at 13:51:25 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
It is surely way better than the alternatives, specially if one
remembers the chaos of writing portable code in C or C++ back
when Java apperead.
Yeah, Flash and javascript are the kings of portable programming.
Then you have the scripting languages (python,perl,tcl/tk…).
Then you have Java.
Then you have Qt, etc
Compiled languages come far down on the list.
HTML5 will remain the king I believe, since OS upgrades can nuke
any compiled program and HTML5 capable browsers are distributed
with the OS.
