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by mumblemumble 2014 days ago
I am guessing that there's not much motivation to change this because of the desire to run anywhere. They can run inside an SDL window on a computer, but, with little modification, you can also get everything running on bare metal, in a browser canvas, or on a mobile device. Visual Smalltalk Enterprise, on the other hand, only ran on Windows.

Personally, I'd welcome something that can do a decent job at cross-platform native-like UI. But I'm not terribly hopeful. As far as cross-platform UI goes, Electron seems to have sucked all the air out of the room.

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Yeah I understand it's easier to make it run everywhere but more choices would be nice. Yeah VSE only runs on Windows, that is one of the many negatives about it.