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by SquareWheel 2686 days ago
>For "frameworks", there's Silverlight, Adobe Air, Haxe, and—strangely enough—Flash itself...

With the exception of Haxe (and maybe Air), these are all dead or dying technologies.

Options 2 (Python/QT) works great, but is certainly more development hours and still requires platform-specific code.

>It worked well enough for Minecraft!

Minecraft was rewritten in C++ for mobile. It doesn't use Java.