hello, I have been using hoplon to dev an a web app prototype which must "pivot" into a native mobile app. I like hoplon and was wondering whether there was a pathway from Hoplon to native mobile app. thank you for your help
i know @micha has done research recently on this, he might have some insight
@alandipert thanks. i am eager to know what @micha knows 🙂
he was on here this morning, so i bet with enough @micha mentions he can be summoned 😄
@micha ^ 😛
he's like beetlejuice
haha
i am going to knock on his ( @micha) door too 🙂
hello @jouerose
i was pretty hopeful for JavaFXports
i've used http://trigger.io in the past, it was fine
it depends though
hi @micha
what's your objective? is it a commercial product with ongoing maintenance expected?
yes i would like to go commercial at some stage
i'm in the initial stages of a project myself, and i need desktop and mobile support
i am listening
but i don't expect to have an ongoing budget for constantly maintaining complex build stuff in the face of the neverending treadmill of breaking changes and general brokenness
so i was at first considering javafx, there is supposedly a thing called javafxports
claim is that you can use that to build windows/macos/linux/ios/android apps with a single javafx source
i have not seen any evidence that this is actually possible
it seems like a rube goldberg machine, based on a thing called robovm which appears to be abandoned
that would be the ideal solution for me, for my project
but it seems like a pipe dream, and i'm sure in a year one part of the rickety tower of nonsense will be acquired by google and broken or something
i don't have time for that kind of churn
so now i am just going to make a webapp
chrome and firefox support push notifications now, allegedly
so that would satisfy the only platform functionality my app needs
and i can let mozilla/google keep up with the parade of busywork required to keep an app working on various platforms
sorry i don't have better news
i just have zero faith in the tooling ecosystem anymore
if i had a monthly budget for this project it would be different, i'd just hire N people to keep plugging away at the churn
i see
thanks for the response @micha
if you find something that seems even a little bit sane i'd be all ears
i like hoplon quite a lot (and of course clojure/script) and wanted to use it