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by oneweekwonder 1802 days ago
While Monodraw seems to have business related features I feel the need to mention "Mœbius ANSI Art Editor"[0] a cross platform open source alternative.

Moebius is a new ANSI and ASCII Editor for MacOS, Windows, and Linux.

With a neat Moebius Server feature that allows collaboration by multiple users on the same canvas through a server instance.

[0]: https://blocktronics.github.io/moebius/
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typon 1802 days ago
This has like...none of the features of Monodraw? Drawings aren't objects - this is just a canvas. This is not an alternative to Monodraw - but an ASCII painting app.
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app4soft 1802 days ago
> a cross platform

Not a cross-platform, but JavaScript-extension with cross-platform Chromium browser bundled.

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dividedbyzero 1802 days ago
As far as I can see there are Electron apps for all major desktop OSes, that's pretty much as cross-platform as it gets, for a desktop app.
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app4soft 1802 days ago
Electron app is "JavaScript-app + Chromium browser (or any other browser)"

Without browser this "browser extension" (Web-app) could not run on any platform.

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dividedbyzero 1801 days ago
Electron is a runtime environment that evolved out of a browser, not a browser. This app doesn't have any browser functionality I can see, like open arbitrary websites, but it does have its own system menus, icon, it's directly executable by the OS. By that logic no software written in an interpreted language can never be cross-platform, you'll always need a runtime environment.
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app4soft 1801 days ago
> but it does have its own system menus, icon,

Desktop files (on Linux & Windows) are just nothing than a text file with description/meta info and a link to local executable or any other sort of file* - that is NOT related in any way to executable at all.

> it's directly executable by the OS.

Because it is browser (Chromium) with a custom browser-extension by design.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_(software_framework)

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azinman2 1802 days ago
No screenshots or am I blind?
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themodelplumber 1802 days ago
That's pretty neat. I didn't realize 16 Colors uses the server feature. https://16colo.rs/servers/
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