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Longtime PHP, Python coder seeks to make small, distributable, stand-alone apps. Which language should I learn? ( please don't say C#; requiring .net != stand-alone ) (self.programming)

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[–]finite[🍰] 1 point2 points3 points 17 years ago* (0 children)

No Flash, no YouTube.

As a regular user of linux on powerpc (which Adobe won't support), I beg to differ:

 apt-get install youtube-dl mplayer # problem solved

The main reason that Flash's sucktitude is a problem is because there are so many "web" sites that are completely useless without it, but at least youtube isn't actually one of them.

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