Haha.. I love this community!

In this day and age, I think that bytecode is the way to go. I feel there's a good performance to portability tradeoff.

Considering a long-term play, android, for example has the advantage of quickly being able to jump to many devices with without sacrificing the app library. Not so for apps that require a re-compile, even if it is simple recompile. For each additional piece of hardware, a new compile must be done for each app in the library. Of course, you can always distribute source, but this has it's own set of consequences.

I think an app layer like QT is good for portability but it is old-school-chic. In the age of bytecode interpreters, and more-than-before cpu options, it makes sense to distribute in a write-once/compile-once, run-anywhere manner.

Oh yeah, and portrait orientation rules!

}:^)~