Cross-platform how-tos
Howdy!
Over the years I've immersed myself in quite a few separate programming languages and development environments. iOS, Android, node, frontend js, typescript, coffeescript, nim, crystal, html, pug, css, sass etc...
I figured I could utilise all the knowledge with a site where you can see side-by-side comparisons of common challenges like say using the location services or file access, etc... between any two development environments. Like seeing how for example user location is access on iOS, Android, frontend web, Windows or Linux in applicable languages.
I find that if I know one platform and language already I don't want to read through full tutorials for a new language or platform I'm learning, I just want to get to the differences and the actual implementation.
I was wondering if anyone would be interested and would pay some amount of money for such a website.
Maybe something like this already exists.
Maybe it's not even relevant due to the popularity of Flutter and Electron.
Thanks for your input!
Yea, I’m interested in the cross-language part. For example, with frameworks like Ruby on Rails vs Django vs NestJS. But, I’m not sure how feasible that actually is based on pricing, effort, and the many differences between languages. One of my favorite places to find code examples is https://www.tabnine.com/code/javascript
Yeah, for sure that comparison is a great example! I would definitely have to start small and should probably start with the most popular choices. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
My intuition is that this will work well if narrowed down; iOS/Android only for example.
That’s very interesting, thanks! You might be right. I was thinking along the lines of https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/index.html which works with many different languages and is its major feature.
What do you think?
Hey, Zoltan. This sounds like a great product. And even with things like Flutter/RN existing you could pivot the idea to be "Cross-Framework/Language" content. (This is how you do X in Language A, B, C).
Thank you Dennis!
"This is how you do X in Language A, B, C"
Yeah, that was the other branch I was thinking about myself as well.