@simontatham I'm not too familiar with client software...

@simontatham I'm not too familiar with client software programming, but isn't C/Rust universal? Wouldn't you be able to call upon the ui renderer to do the rest.
Also VMs exist.

Like 27 February at 15:21 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mstdn.social

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Simon Tatham

@Skye there are cross-platform GUI toolkits that would let you write an application for multiple platforms with 90% of the code not needing to change.

But that way you also lose a lot of detailed platform integration – you're limited to the common subset of functionality. Also, the 10% where you had to do fiddly porting stuff is where most of the bugs end up, so you'd deal with it much more than 10% of the time!

PuTTY talks directly to the Win32 API, so its GUI code is all custom.

27 February at 15:29 | Open on hachyderm.io

Skye

@simontatham Putty also looks like it is from Windows 95. If you want a windows platform I can recommend UWP, the only thing I worked with before switching.

27 February at 15:43 | Open on mstdn.social