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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.

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Pros of MacGap
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    Remember that Mac app you always wanted to create... ?
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    Actively being worked on
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    Cross-platform
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    Fast

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Cons of MacGap
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    Only for Mac
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    No GUI support

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What is MacGap?

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.

What is SDL?

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.

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    What are some alternatives to MacGap and SDL?
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