It's strange how we've gone from a world of native apps for a select few platforms, excluding all others, to a world of web apps that supposedly run on everything (as long as they have a supported bro...
Back in college with my Atari ST, I sometimes envied the PC world with its plethora of apps. Delving deeper into Free Software ameliorated some of that; it's why I became a gcc & binutils maintainer, so I could build other people's code and run it on my ST. For proprietary stuff I wrote my own 8086 to 68000 binary translator, turning MS-DOS apps into GEMDOS apps. At no point along the way did I ever settle for the sluggish performance of an interpreter or emulator.
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