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📣 Shared404

Why not use Godot for cross platform apps. Proof of concept in comments


Why not use Godot for cross platform apps. Proof of concept in comments


  👤 cercatrova Accepted Answer ✓
There is no reason, really. People just don't think about using game engines to write applications. This is part of why Flutter instead turned this around, making apps act more like they're in a game engine, with the Skia renderer. Cross platform in this case is just using the renderer for each platform and it works super well. If you like Godot, therefore, you should definitely check out Flutter as it's custom built for writing apps.

👤 Shared404
It seems like Godot provides many of the advantages of Electron with few of the downsides. Why is it or similar tools not used more often?

POC is here: https://git.sr.ht/~evan-hoose/BadTextEditor


👤 cellularmitosis
Any chance you can take some screenshots or a short video? I'd be curious to see it but don't want to install anything.

👤 msie
I had the same idea too. It's sorta like Visual Basic in feel.