Comment on Ask HN: What is your prefered language for OS independant developement?Comments−swah13yWhen possible, make it a web app. Otherwise, I'd love to know more about Sublime Text and Light Table approaches, as they work well enough.−philipbjorge13yA slightly hackish proof of concept IDE I built called Turbo Impress is built off the same technologies that Light Table is using.https://github.com/philipbjorge/Turbo-ImpressSpecifically, I use the Node Webkit project which is an app runtime built on top of Chromium and Node.js. A pretty neat way to get effectively free cross-platform support on Windows, OSX, and Linux.https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkitI'm not sure how Sublime is getting their cross platform support. I've been interested in it for a while though, so I hope someone chimes in.−LarryMade213yOS independent is the web app. I prefer the traditional PHP/MySQL but YMMV.Then again it depends on what you are developing. PHP is good for what I'm doing but not necessarily for games and such.If I needed to make something that ran ON the user's hardware Python or C would be my choices.
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When possible, make it a web app. Otherwise, I'd love to know more about Sublime Text and Light Table approaches, as they work well enough.
A slightly hackish proof of concept IDE I built called Turbo Impress is built off the same technologies that Light Table is using.
https://github.com/philipbjorge/Turbo-Impress
Specifically, I use the Node Webkit project which is an app runtime built on top of Chromium and Node.js. A pretty neat way to get effectively free cross-platform support on Windows, OSX, and Linux.
https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
I'm not sure how Sublime is getting their cross platform support. I've been interested in it for a while though, so I hope someone chimes in.
OS independent is the web app. I prefer the traditional PHP/MySQL but YMMV.
Then again it depends on what you are developing. PHP is good for what I'm doing but not necessarily for games and such.
If I needed to make something that ran ON the user's hardware Python or C would be my choices.