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Except for the fact that developers can be productive in many programming languages on Windows, Linux, and OSX... but in order to develop for ChromeOS you are restricted to javascript alone.
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Are you bemoaning the lack of choice, or is there some inherent weakness of Javascript that is not evidenced in other programming languages?
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That is very different from the work required to port a game from Windows to Linux, using a familiar programming language and the plethora of cross-platform UI toolkits.
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I'm aware. I believe I've said twice now that I didn't think it would be possible to port Calibre to ChromeOS. It's fairly obvious it would have to be a totally new creation, written from the ground up. No small undertaking. Plus, let's all admit it, Calibre is bloated; it would best be split into smaller separate programs. I mean heck, when was Sigil rolled into Calibre and why?
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Targeting ChromeOS for development is prohibitively expensive in regards to pre-existing skills.
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If you say so.
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Hence it is a browser toy.
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I don't follow your reasoning. I listed several examples of Chrome apps that aren't just browser pages. A torrent client? A video transcoder? A web server? Chrome devices are full fledged computers, running a specialized version of Linux. ChromeOS apps happen to be written in Javascript. Somehow this makes them "a browser toy"?
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Maybe in the future ChromeOS will be popular enough that things change, but that is hardly relevant to this thread.
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Isn't it though? The central argument in this thread is "go run Linux/Mac/Windows, newb! Your
'computer' is just a toy".
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ChromeOS still isn't useful for an ebook management platform.
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Of course it is. You simply have no interest in it, and that's fine. Just say so and be done. When someone asks about Calibe on a Chromebook just tell them the Calibre developers are never going to create a Calibre for Chromebook, and be done. No need to crap all over them and tell them their devices are merely toys simply because you don't understand the capabilities of those devices.
Feel free to respond, or don't. I'm done.