Re: [DIYbio] Genome Compiler

...But it's not cross platform. It's Mac/Windows only.
There are oodles of other systems that are fully cross platform and more
powerful/secure than Adobe anything. Consider Python3/TclTK a nice
standard of this class.

Even properly written code in C is "cross-platform" because you can just
compile it to each architecture. Less convenient than Python, but still
miles better than Air.

Air is pretty. It might be easy to work with, I don't know. But it's not
cross-platform at all. And, as an Adobe product, it should be considered
a malware backdoor.

On 04/06/12 22:15, Omri Drory wrote:
> Hi Bryan, this Omri (CEO of Genome Compiler) - we use AIR only because of
> the cross-platform support. We're not in love with this platform and hope
> to move to HTML5 when it's mature enough.
>
> Please do try our software - there much we plan to build and support our
> community (just gave a talk at bioC + supporting iGem)
>
> Feel free to contact me at omri@genomecompiler.com if you have any feedback
>
> Omri
>
> On Friday, June 1, 2012 7:35:00 PM UTC-7, Bryan Bishop wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:34 PM, ruphos <apokruphos@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hard to say. They don't give any info about their program (that I could
>>> find, anyway) until you click the install button. Unfortunately, they're
>>> using adobe air as a platform, which no longer supports linux-based
>> OSes.
>>
>> Sounds sorta useless. The only reason you might choose Adobe Air is
>> because you were sold over the hype about protecting your machine
>> code, but that's not really true because, hell, we're biohackers. The
>> other possible reason is some claim about cross-platform support, but
>> there are tons of more biologist-friendly options for that (pyjs keeps
>> claiming to be one, but there are others). Smells fishy to me.
>>
>> - Bryan
>> http://heybryan.org/
>> 1 512 203 0507
>>
>

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