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Poll: A year from now, which language will you be writing mobile apps in?

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Re: Poll: A year from now, which language will you be writing mobile apps in?

#6
While native applications wont go away any time soon, I fully believe that we will see the exact same position as we do currently do with flash vs the web.

People will use native apps particularly when web apps just cant provide the functionality needed, but web apps will grow into the large majority, slowly improving and eating out the market from the bottom.

its taken the web a very long time to take out flash's market share so it could take a very long time on mobile as well, however the web is progressing rapidly these days so it may not be the long drawn out process we have seen with flash.

Re: Poll: A year from now, which language will you be writing mobile apps in?

#8
By and large, I'll need to make existing web apps mobile friendly (ie., easy to use on a small mobile browser), rather than write apps for a particular mobile device per se. So core programming languages will probably still be Java and Ruby. I expect that HTML5, CSS, Javascript, other UI type languages will factor in as well.

Re: Poll: A year from now, which language will you be writing mobile apps in?

#10
It's tough to say one exactly, so I went for Javascript native and mobile, as well as other.

I only target iOS as mobile devices, so my focus maybe be slightly different from others (android is catching on a lot around here with my friends, and nobody is picking up blackberry).

For graphical big projects, I tend to write in Scheme and compile down to iphone. It's nice to have the flexibility and comfortable toolset.

I do a lot of small quick-and-dirty projects as mobile javascript apps, and they tend to grow over time, but never too big... until recently, I've been thinking about wrapping these in some sort of native-layer so that I can possibly distribute them via the app-store (honestly, most of the native stuff I used to slug through objective-c to get is available with the new iOS Safari stuff).

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