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by mailslot 2222 days ago
Opposite side of this. Back in the day there was this company called Silicon Graphics (SGI). They had this API called GL, it’s what you know as OpenGL.

Software was written for their workstations that ran their UNIX OS IRIX. This is where Maya and many other awesome programs were built. Maya now runs on Windows, Linux, macOS, etc.

Cross platform code is fantastic.

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Is anybody writing user programs that might otherwise be cross-platform and shipping them as an image with a docker dependency?
Yes, our main application is mostly used as a cloud service deployed in Kubernetes, but also has deployments running natively on Windows.