Is Rev too "Mac focused"?

Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Sat Aug 7 19:26:17 EDT 2004


And therein lies the rub.

I believe it is literally impossible to create an xplat dev tool that 
lets the developer call native system APIs. As an OS X guy, I would 
much rather find xplat ways of accomplishing things that would 
otherwise cause me to have to learn and deal with an underlying OS.


On Aug 7, 2004, at 2:53 PM, Ken Ray wrote:

> I wouldn't be
> comparing Rev to other cross-platform tools when looking at Windows
> development needs - I'd be comparing Rev to other mainstream PC 
> development
> environments. And for *those*, the answer is *yes*, all those tools 
> can do
> what I proposed Rev should do.
>
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