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_random_ on Oct 23, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Why the Microsoft hate?

Can you elaborate on pain of porting to Windows? Have you tried programming C#/JavaScript/Java? AFAIK all those languages are portable to various extent. If you want to use non-platform-idiomatic GUI then you can use something like Awesomium and reuse HTML5.

api on Oct 23, 2013 [–]

I'm talking about writing lower level app code, especially code that interacts with the network and the filesystem and uses things like threads.

All the world is not a webapp.

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