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by bbayer 4918 days ago
Can anyone explain what is the difference with Adobe AIR?
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AFAIK Air doesn't support Python, Ruby and PHP scripts inline in the local applications?

(Granted the language mixing code (called Kroll) is quite slow if you have large shared objects, but I've found with careful interface design you can mitigate the downsides and get a fast, stable interface, in my case mixing python modules like gzip and javascript.)

You need to install Adobe AIR in order to run the apps created for AIR but for TideSDK, you don't need any additional software.
You need to install Tide runtime once (just like AIR) to be able to run Tide apps.