One the compelling thing about Gnoga is that you are "platform proofed" with it. Since apps will run both local and remote, and use HTML 5 for rendering, you are guaranteed that you can create an app that can run on any platform and if the resources are too low can run offsite.
The next wave in app development will be a refocus again to server based systems, the trend is always client <-> server ping pong. We are on the verge of the server phase coming up over the next years and Gnoga is poised for it now. I am also preparing for the reverse trend as well. I have been developing now a new Ada front end (those on IRC know about it already) that will emit C, LLVM IR and JavaScript so GNAT will not be the only long term option and client side wherever a browser can run will be available in the next year or so. I've had venture capitalists show interest in the Gnoga approach and my long term business strategy (some of which I have still not discussed), enough so that one key player is taking time to guide things along. I can't say that will materialize and I'm ok one way or the other but it would be nice to fast tract the plans and Gnoga towards my long term goals and involve many more people. So there is much future in Ada and in Gnoga, Ada is a solid language for app development much more so than any other main stream language and the Gnoga approach is one I expect to see emulated over the coming years and we are in the right place at the right time. David Botton On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 9:23 AM Gour <g...@atmarama.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I was interested in using Ada as programming language to write > multi-platform > (open-source) desktop application and at that time Gnoga was just in > conceiving phase. > > There are few modern languages like Go, Rust, Nim…but most of them suck > more > or less at their GUI offerings or are even not meant for such use cases. > > Here I must say that ’plain Ada’ with GtkAda bindings & its licensing is > also > not thriving, but that’s what makes Gnoga compelling. > > So, before going much into evaluating Gnoga, I’m interested what does if > offer for someone desiring to write desktop app and have decent look on > multi-platforms? > > Is it something like having wxwidgets for Ada by allowing to have common > codebase and still get multi-platform app using native GUI toolkit? > > Let me say that the ability to write app’s “lite” versio for mobile OS-es > is > nice add-on, but not at all critical issue. > > > Sincerely, > Gour > > -- > He is a perfect yogī who, by comparison to his own self, > sees the true equality of all beings, in both their > happiness and their distress, O Arjuna! > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Gnoga-list mailing list > Gnoga-list@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gnoga-list >
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