One Effort Multiple Platforms

If you’ve ever needed to produce the same application for different platforms, you’re aware of just how frustrating and time-consuming that process can be. With most current solutions, you need to have expertise in all the platforms you wish to target and re-write your application’s code multiple times. 8th is different.

With 8th, you write the application code just once. After you’ve checked that it works as you expect, you run the build utility and in a matter of seconds you’ll have a runnable executable for each platform you’ve selected.

The GUI subsystem 8th uses is based on the Nuklear library, SDL2, and OpenGL. This ensures your application’s look-and-feel are as similar as possible across the various systems on which your application may run.

The 8th toolset with which you create programs runs on the major desktop operating systems: Windows, macOS, and Linux. The runtime engine runs on those systems as well as Android, iOS, and the Raspberry Pi (running a Linux OS).

Unlike many other offerings, 8th does not provide an IDE. You choose which editor and other tools you want to use. The toolset 8th provides is strictly command-line based, freeing your system from the strain of running huge IDEs just to produce a program.

8th and its produced programs currently run on:

• Microsoft Windows XP/7/8/10
• macOS 10.7 and later (64-bit) (on M1 etc devices, 11.1 and later)
• Linux - Ubuntu 14.04 and later, and derivatives or similar systems based on libc6
• Raspbian (Raspberry Pi version of Debian Linux; also works for similar SBC Linux systems)
• Android 4.4 (API level 19, ARM devices) and later
• iOS 11 and later (64-bit)