Series: The Challenge of Cross-Platform Reality - Part 3 In the natural universe, harmony doesn’t arise because every environment is the same. It emerges because systems adapt to the conditions they inhabit. Cross-platform software follows the same principle. Rather than pretending operating systems are identical, robust systems acknowledge their differences. Platform-specific behaviours are isolated. Shared logic is protected. Interfaces are designed to translate intent, not

Series: The Challenge of Cross-Platform Reality - Part 2 When code moves from one platform to another, it encounters a kind of environmental resistance - not dramatic, not obvious, but persistent. A file path that once resolved cleanly now breaks. A graphics call behaves slightly differently. A background process stalls under a new security model. An input event arrives out of order, or not at all. None of these are errors in isolation. Each platform is behaving exactly as it

Series: The Challenge of Cross-Platform Reality - Part 1 In theory, code feels universal. Logic is logic. Algorithms behave the same wherever they are executed. A completed system can feel like a finished universe - self-contained, stable, complete. But the moment we ask that universe to exist on more than one platform, everything changes. Operating systems look similar on the surface, yet beneath their interfaces lie fundamentally different environments - different file syst