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0 pointsJepZ8y ago0 comments

Well, POSIX is pretty similar to what I mean, but it has a lot of low level stuff and I doubt that Microsoft has any ambitions to transform Windows into a POSIX compatible OS.

I thought more about a higher level standard like adding Python, Lua or Qt to every installation by default. As some of those things are pretty heavy I doubt that it would be a wise choice to include them in POSIX.

Just imagine a world were you could simply write a small python script which would start a complete GUI application on different platforms without any additional installation procedures. To my knowledge that is not possible today. AFAIK the only way today is to bundle the dependencies, but that has a lot of negative effects.

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JdeBP8y ago

> I doubt that Microsoft has any ambitions to transform Windows into a POSIX compatible OS.

Windows NT already is, and has been for many years. It has had two POSIX subsystems over the years, and then a Linux subsystem.

jiggunjer8y ago

Isn't that what electron is popular for?

JepZOP8y ago

Yes, that's what everybody uses electron for, because the use-case is obviously there.

But everybody who has build an electron app and a Qt/GTK app, will agree that the tool kits which are available to electron apps are not as sophisticated as Qt/GTK (not talking about the ton of downsides of electron apps (huge app size, outdated versions, etc.)).

I am completely pro PWA, but as far as I can see it it will take a few more years (at least) before we will get to a state which will allow us to use them in the same way we develop and use normal desktop apps nowadays.

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