You will remember, from my last email that I was going to share with you the revelation (epiphany?) I had recently about sotware development.

My software goal has always been write once, deploy anywhere.

Despite the promises there are very few tools that can do that.

While many of the languages can run on any computer, they have to be compiled (made into apps) on the target operating system or they don’t work.

You know that the software market is massive, in the region of $750B last year and growing at 11% per annum.

You probably don’t need a billion dollar idea to make a great living supplying useful tools to people.

It’s the goal of being cross-platform that drives the SaaS market and development, but there are many people reluctant to rely on someone else’s computer to store their data.

Those people will be the ones who will buy an app to do things for them on their computer.

Now, LiveCode will create apps for all platforms, but they want a monthly fee plus a percentage of your sales.

Xojo creates apps for all platforms, but they want $1000 a year to get it licensed.

Java creates cross platform apps, but the language is complex and the Jar files look ugly unless you do some hacking.

There are others, all with their own little peccadillos and peculiarities.

But, I found an unusual one that seems to be able to do the job despite not being designed for that type of development.

That tool is Godo.

Originally developed in Argentina and now open-source Godo is essentially a tool for games development.

It was originally designed to be fully cross platform.

It will create games that will run on Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, the web, and Macs.

All from a single code base.

The language used is very Python-like, but the big advantage is that you can use AI to guide your development, as I have.

It’s looking promising.

You can create any app with this I think.

Regards,
Brent.