> > Do you believe HTML5 is good-enough for desktop apps? > > Did you believe that PDF was? Mac OS X uses it for rendering we are using HTML5.
The next step for Gnoga is a set of controls/widgets that will make layouts more natural for applications, but that aspect is only for us nerds. For pro apps with designers available HTML 5 works out _better_ for desktop apps and many new apps are using HTML 5 since the layouts will be usable on other platforms such as mobile. > I must admit that for my case, I’m leaning more towards ’classical’ desktop > app. > What is the nature of the app you are developing. For real time high frequency monitoring on a UI even I would agree :) > > This sounds interesting, I just wonder if it is not quite ambitious project > requiring lot of man power and time? > And perhaps it will take years, but better than no one trying :) However the effort is much less when you take out the need to do optimizations and code generation which is handled by LLVM or other backends. > I must say I that I like Ada as programming language, but would be more > happy > seeing it is used more, especiall in the domain of open-source projects and > that’s why I still looking at languages like Nim… > > Sadly there was once bigger efforts but post gnat 3.14p the licensing issues put a big damper on community efforts. Hopefully that trend will reverse. Having spent a considerable amount of time (more than I hoped) exploring options, none of the "up and coming" are as well designed as Ada. Rust has some promise but not general purpose enough, and nim is buried in trying to provide too much syntactic sugar to every problem. David Botton
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