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Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application.

From Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
Newsgroups comp.programming
Subject Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application.
Date 2016-01-08 10:05 +0100
Organization JSA Research & Innovation
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Daniel Pitts wrote:

> The thing is that I'm also going to want integration with iOS devices
> at least (and probably Android/Windows at some point).  I feel like a
> web-server is high overhead for a native-feeling App.

I don't think you need to fear the overhead.  The cost of moving bits
over HTTP can be insignificant compared to rendering a user interface.

But I'm not sure if it is possible/allowed to run a web-server on iOS,
Android and Windows for phones.

I think your choice of targets limits the list of available languages to
C and C++, but you should check if there are other options.  (I would
like to suggest Ada for the backend, but I haven't heard of an Ada
compiler targeting iOS.)

Greetings,

Jacob
-- 
"It ain't rocket science!" - Well, some of it is!

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Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-07 11:37 -0800
  Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2016-01-07 21:24 +0100
    Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-07 18:02 -0800
      Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2016-01-08 09:30 +0100
        Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-13 10:25 -0800
          Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> - 2016-01-13 21:20 +0100
          Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-01-14 02:57 -0800
  Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-07 21:55 +0000
    Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2016-01-07 18:01 -0800
      Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk> - 2016-01-08 10:05 +0100
      Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-01-08 19:14 +0000
      Re: Recommendations for building a multi-platform desktop application. Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2016-01-09 04:09 -0800

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