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Posted by Julian Betancourt
Julian Betancourt
11,466 Points

Programming languages for desktop apps?

What are the programming languages that enable the creation of desktop apps? Things like spotify, office and all the software you can run on a PC/Mac ?

Does treehouse teach them?

2 Answers

Gaylen Miller
Gaylen Miller
19,286 Points
Gaylen Miller
Gaylen Miller
19,286 Points

I don't know that there is a mainstream language that supports both PC and Mac.

For the PC, Microsoft's C# is getting lots of attention For the Mac, there are tools like XCode.

But teamTreehouse is more of an Internet theme and mobile with less emphasis on the desktop. Pluralsight has some courses in C#, but there courses tend to be more narrated screencasts without the periodic checks.

Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points
Chris Shaw
Chris Shaw
26,676 Points

Hi Julian,

The only common programming languages between Windows, OS X and Linux are C and C++, sadly most of the software that allows you to build cross-platform applications use either of these two languages so the only other option would be to use tools such as the following to create web based versions that function and behave the same way as a website but and contained within a native app container along with SDK access to the core system functions.

Hope that helps.