Interest
Proportion of Hacker News items mentioning "cross-platform" over time.
Mentions
Total number of Hacker News items mentioning "cross-platform" over time.
Within computing, cross-platform software is computer software that is designed to work in several computing platforms. Some cross-platform software requires a separate build for each platform, but some can be directly run on any platform without special preparation, being written in an interpreted language or compiled to portable bytecode for which the interpreters or run-time packages are common or standard components of all supported platforms. Read more on Wikipedia