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  1. 1. Primary Development platform

    • Windows
      11
    • Mac
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    • Linux
      1
    • Mobile
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  2. 2. Do you make your app(s) Cross Platform?

    • Yes
      8
    • No
      7

  3. 3. If so, what tools do you normally use to make it cross platform?

    • C++ and something like QT
      0
    • Generic C++
      0
    • C# .NET
      1
    • C# UWP
      0
    • C++ UWP
      0
    • Java
      3
    • Python
      3
    • Lua
      0
    • Pascal
      0
    • Objective C
      0
    • Other
      1
    • I don't make it cross platform
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When making an application, how do you determine whether or not it has to be cross platform?

 

And if you decide to make it cross platform, what do you use for cross platform development?

 

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You realize that every question needs to be filled out in a poll, right?

You can't just skip an "if so..."

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1 minute ago, Enderman said:

You realize that every question needs to be filled out in a poll, right?

You can't just skip an "if so..."

Fixed.....

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Some things are inherently cross platform such as python.

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I'm not a developer, though if I were to learn a programming language and develop programs, I would start on Linux and make it cross platform. If it would make sense for it to be mobile, I would then work on porting it to Android first, then iOS and then Windows which would likely make it easy to make a Windows Mobile program work on regular Windows. 

 

I don't know really what programming language is the best or versatile, though I think Python or C# or C++ would be decent options.

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For game engines (I never finish them) I use C++ / OpenGL (although my current project is Win32/DX12 (UWP in the future)).

My other "applications" I write in Python so they're always crossplatform.

 

My main motivation to write cross platform code is because I want to be able to develop on my Macbook and (Windows) desktop at the same time.

For games I care less because I do not expect it to run on a macbook.

Furthermore, Apple is making it very hard to write cross platform code (no modern OpenGL, OpenCL of Vulkan support because they want to push Metal).

Same thing goes for Nvidia: its cute that they created the GPGPU market with CUDA, but they are being dicks by neglecting OpenCL support.

 

I decided to go for DX12 instead of Vulkan because Microsoft provides a good developer experience and Im not personally interested in the other platforms Vulkan supports (Linux and outdated Windows)

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6 hours ago, wcreek said:

I'm not a developer, though if I were to learn a programming language and develop programs, I would start on Linux and make it cross platform. If it would make sense for it to be mobile, I would then work on porting it to Android first, then iOS and then Windows which would likely make it easy to make a Windows Mobile program work on regular Windows. 

 

I don't know really what programming language is the best or versatile, though I think Python or C# or C++ would be decent options.

Why Linux first?

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6 minutes ago, AluminiumTech said:

Why Linux first?

I figure if I were to make a mobile version of an app, it'd be easier to go from Linux to Android in terms of programming. Idk maybe it doesn't work that way, though I would think it would.

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1 minute ago, wcreek said:

I figure if I were to make a mobile version of an app, it'd be easier to go from Linux to Android in terms of programming. Idk maybe it doesn't work that way, though I would think it would.

It tends not to work like that.

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1 minute ago, AluminiumTech said:

It tends not to work like that.

I mean I also have a preference towards Linux, so I think if I were to develop I would want to give Linux some special treatment. Though after Linux, I would port it to Windows then maybe macOS.

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I use Java as of right now to make my applications cross-platform with Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android.

Also kind of because I learned a bit of C#, and Java syntax is almost the same as C#.

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Anyways doing some reading it sounds like Python would be a good start if I did want to start developing programs.

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