Comment by alok-g

1 month ago

More generally, which all tools that can target multiple platforms, produce relatively small binaries for simple applications? And which of these are lean themselves?

May be I am doing something wrong, but I had installed Android Studio, then Android emulator, SDK, etc., and before I could get a hello-world app to compile, some 30 GB were gone from my disk space.

If it comes to it, I do not personally mind using multiple tools and code for different target platforms, as much as (a) both the tools themselves and the binaries generated are lean, and (b) the development tooling itself is on a single platform just so that I do not need to maintain multiple hardware. (I currently use Windows, would likely need to move over).

Thanks.

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billfruit  1 month ago

Java perhaps? That was one of the core promises of the Java ecosystem.

  • dlachausse  1 month ago

    > produce relatively small binaries for simple applications

    The problem is that you need to have a huge Java runtime installed or use something like Jlink which still produces very large binaries for GUI apps.

    I think wxWidgets is the Lazarus alternative that is the closest to what grandparent was asking for.

    https://wxwidgets.org/

    • alok-g  1 month ago

      Thanks.

      Is there something similar for Android as well?

      Asking ChatGPT, it has made recommendations for Haxe most importantly, which claims to support a large number of platforms.

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