Building cross-platform desktop software is hard!

[cgdtaylor]

@coady Interesting. I’ll check it out under a different lens. Thanks for replying.

 

[deandrade]

@coady Hmmm I couldn’t get a quick overview of what this brings to the table. I just saw the webpage have a store for games ?

 

[lilybetofthevalley]

@coady This looks so neat and just what I needed!

 

[caseyanne2]

@coady Can confirm, founder of Displagent, using Electron, had to setup custom CI CD with CircleCI, lots of stupid bugs, hard as heck.

 

[adriennesays]

@coady For native desktop apps, I write code with MVP pattern (model-view-presenter). Then I rewrite the view for each platform. But with MVP, the view is very dumb code and easy to (re)write. This makes portable software much easier to write, and you usually get a better experience with a native implementation of the view.

Otherwise, I'd likely go with flutter.

 

[dksrii]

@coady Congratulations on the EXT launch! It's evident you've addressed a common pain point in desktop app development. The fact that you've dogfooded your APIs and offered a variety of free games and utilities shows a commitment to user experience. Excited to check out EXT and explore the possibilities it brings to cross-platform development!