Best Cross Platform Language For Standalone App Dev?

rajasekharan · #1 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 10:23 AM

Hi,

Which language is the best for standalone application programming across Mac, Linux and Windows platforms. I'd like to code in any one platform and have the program run exactly the same in all platforms.

Which languages come to mind?

Thanks in advance,

Raja Sekharan

**WingedPanther** · #2 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 11:10 AM

C++ and Java come to mind for me. With C++, you'll likely want to use a cross-platform GUI library as well (such as wxWidgets).

**v0id** · #3 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 11:49 AM

I agree with WingedPanther.

+Rep given.

**G_Morgan** · #4 (**permalink**) 03-17-2008, 12:42 PM

A good option for cross platform might be using the KDE4 API (Qt, Phonon, etc).

It's pretty fresh but is at a stable release right now. I'm not sure if there is a stable version available for OSX or Windows yet but since Trolltech are adopting Phonon into Qt that should be enough for most applications.

You'd have to use C++ to get the most out of Qt but there are bindings to Java.

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