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For cross platform I've started looking at Free Pascal with Lazarus. It uses the native GUI so it looks like a MacOS app and also a Windows app. It also has support for Android and iOS. It may get passed over by most because it is based on Pascal but overall, I think it is great (from what I've done with it)

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That sounds interesting - if I can compile to everywhere from linux, I might give it a shot. The language itself or its reputation is not a problem to me, as long as the syntax isn't quite brainfuck-like and the performance not completely abysmal, I'm fine.

Unfortunately you aren't able to do that from Linux. It is a write once, compile everywhere language. If you want iOS and macOS you need to have a Mac to compile. Same goes with Windows. Here is a list of all platforms that the Free Pascal compiler is available on (and thus you can compile for): https://www.freepascal.org/download.var

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