Frameworks & Tools to Develop Cross-Platform Desktop Apps – Best of

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Haxe

Cons: Programs with native AS3 libraries are not yet fully supported by Haxe. Beside this, debugging difficulties increase after language translation of the source code, hence building something with Haxe requires high coding standards.

#Programming Language #OOP #Generic Programming Language 45 social mentions

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Electron

Enyo is an open-source JavaScript framework, like Electron, that allows developers to create native-quality apps for desktop, mobile, and TV. Enyo can run across all the relatively modern and standard web-based environments. It’s battle-tested and comes with a beautiful cross-platform UI toolkit for creating rich user interfaces.

#Development Tools #Rapid Application Development #Cross-Platform Development 14 social mentions

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NW.js

Cons: Some hard work features that are available in Electron, such as auto-updater and crash-reporting, don’t comes built-in with NW.js. That said, building with NW.js requires more efforts and extra modules – unlike other solutions.

#Development Tools #Rapid Application Development #Cross-Platform Development 33 social mentions

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8th

8th lets developers write code and produce applications for various target operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Raspberry Pi, Android as well as iOS. Its primary focus is providing cross-platform compatibility as well as security in the final software products or distributions.

#Programming Language #Development Tools #Cross-Platform Desktop Development 9 social mentions

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B4J

B4J is more of an IDE than a cross-platform framework for developing applications that run on Windows, Mac OS & Linux systems and ARM boards (like Pi) as well. This solution lets you write code in B4X language, a modern version of Visual Basic. Your application is built for all the supported platforms and per people’s remarks, they work pretty well on the popular desktop platforms.

#IDE #Text Editors #Programming Language

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Kivy

Kivy is an open-source Python GUI framework to build multi-touch applications for desktop as well as mobile platforms. Using this framework, software using the same code can run on all the supported platforms, i.e. Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Android and iOS. These cross-platform apps are coded in Python, but their GUI is built using the Kivy APIs which provides various layouts and widgets.

#Developer Tools #Rapid Application Development #Python Tools 46 social mentions

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Xojo

Xojo is a programming environment available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. With its Xojo IDE, it provides an easy-to-use, drag-and-drop UI builder, and its own language for coding your application. The IDE also allows testing the app immediately, and when it’s ready, it converts this app to run on multiple platforms.

#IDE #Text Editors #Programming Language 5 social mentions

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EnactJS

Enyo is an open-source JavaScript framework, like Electron, that allows developers to create native-quality apps for desktop, mobile, and TV. Enyo can run across all the relatively modern and standard web-based environments. It’s battle-tested and comes with a beautiful cross-platform UI toolkit for creating rich user interfaces.

#Javascript UI Libraries #Development Tools #JS Library

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WinDev

WINDEV Express is an IDE combined with framework for building cross-platform software. This framework allows developing applications for numerous platforms including Windows, Mac OS, Linux and more. It offers its own language called WLanguage to create the cross-platform apps using its IDE.

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