Next time you need to build a cross-platform desktop application, I recommend you to try Electron, especially if you are coming from JavaScript, and you already have some code you may be able to ...

Quark creator Nishkal Kashyap calls Quark a sketchbook for native desktop apps and not a desktop app builder. Other features of Quark include: Access to Node.js and Electron renderer process APIs.

The availability of a desktop-wide embeddable scripting language for application extension and plugin writing will enable users to add lots of rich new functionality to the environment.

SweetLabs, formerly known as OpenCandy, has launched a new cross-platform app technology that brings the user experience of mobile apps to PCs. Pokki apps run on the desktop in a small bar on the ...

The company behind Pokki, Sweet Labs, hopes to encourage developers to use smartphone app programming tools — HTML5 and JavaScript — to build simple, fast desktop apps.

Discord has patched a critical issue in the desktop version of the messaging app which left users vulnerable to remote code execution (RCE) attacks. Bug bounty hunter Masato Kinugawa developed an ...

On the other hand, I’m very enthusiastic about Silverlight 2 as an RIA. If I wanted to build a Silverlight Web application and needed a desktop version as well, I would lean toward separately ...

Even with the rise of web apps, there's a bright future for Java desktop application development. Java revolutionized software development 30 years ago. Even with the rise of web apps, ... More ...