04-12-2010, 06:20 PM
Article Accelerator wrote:
[quote=Tulrin]
It is a standard practice to decouple applications from APIs in order to reduce the risk of being tightly coupled to an API that is out of developer's control.
And when developers use cross-compilers to do so, they help themselves by easing cross-platform development while harming platforms and platform users by creating sub-optimal applications.
As a user, I don't give a damn about making a developer's life easier if it means that his application will work poorly on my chosen platform.
Wow, been drinking some Koolaid? Do you drones just repeat whatever Steve Jobs says word for word without a shred of independent thought?
How exactly does a developer using cross-compilers harm a platform?
I am willing to bet there are all sorts of applications that have been created using cross-compilers that you love and have no idea... simple fact is that is the way of the future and as each year passes more and more applications are developed using some sort of translation layer. Get used to it, development any other way is just too cost prohibitive.
If you don't like an app don't use it, simple as that.