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MacGap vs SDL: What are the differences?
MacGap: Desktop WebKit wrapper for HTML/CSS/JS applications. MacGap provides HTML/JS/CSS developers an Xcode project for developing native OS X App. These Apps run in OS X's WebView and take advantage of WebKit technologies. MacGap exposes a JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native notifications or writing data to a file. MacGap is extremely lightweight and nimble; a blank application weighs less than 1MB; SDL: A cross-platform software development library. It is a cross-platform development library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics hardware via OpenGL and Direct3D.
MacGap and SDL can be categorized as "Cross-Platform Desktop Development" tools.
Some of the features offered by MacGap are:
- open-source
- tiny compiled app sizes
- Mac App Store compatible
On the other hand, SDL provides the following key features:
- Multiple window support
- Hardware-accelerated 2D graphics
- Better Unicode support
MacGap is an open source tool with 3.59K GitHub stars and 228 GitHub forks. Here's a link to MacGap's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of MacGap
- Remember that Mac app you always wanted to create... ?3
Pros of SDL
- Actively being worked on2
- Cross-platform1
- Fast1
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Cons of MacGap
- Only for Mac2
Cons of SDL
- No GUI support1