@nasser@akkartik@maya I also agree, but with the caveat that I actually don’t love using browser based software that isn’t network related, but I do love it as a dev environment, even just for prototyping. For me it’s the fastest way to think through an idea with a canvas. Many other languages/environments make it really hard to visualize things dynamically, or whip up a quick UI.
I will say that I don’t really enjoy JavaScript as a language. But that’s easy enough to work around these days.
It's a little work. You have to download LÖVE (a nice cross-platform 5MB binary), then create a little app with LoveFrames set up inside it. Whereas the browser is obviously right there and ready to go.
It's a little work. You have to download LÖVE (a nice cross-platform 5MB binary), then create a little app with LoveFrames set up inside it. Whereas the browser is obviously right there and ready to go.
@emenel@nasser@akkartik@maya You might consider a Smalltalk system. Squeak, Pharo, Glamorous Toolkit (the latter being Pharo with a new UI). Main drawback: no decent mobile support.
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@nasser @akkartik @maya I also agree, but with the caveat that I actually don’t love using browser based software that isn’t network related, but I do love it as a dev environment, even just for prototyping. For me it’s the fastest way to think through an idea with a canvas. Many other languages/environments make it really hard to visualize things dynamically, or whip up a quick UI.
I will say that I don’t really enjoy JavaScript as a language. But that’s easy enough to work around these days.