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The future of cross platform desktop development looks bright. Microsoft is coming up with .NET 6 and Google has flutter. I just hope that these frameworks can

The future of cross platform desktop development looks bright. Microsoft is coming up with .NET 6 and Google has flutter. I just hope that these frameworks can replace bulky electron apps.

k__ 6y ago
Revery also looks nice. I wish they had more funding, tho. I find Reason/OCaml more compelling than Dart.
- sly010 6y ago
  How is OCaml's multithreading story? Google says it's basically GIL-ed.
  - blandflakes 6y ago
    Simultaneously in a state of having-been vaporware and making real progress towards being merged to master: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-june-2020/6047 https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-june-2020/6047
  - wishinghand 6y ago
    What's GIL-ed?
- thomasfortes 6y ago
  There's a guy that managed to compile and run revery on android, I would love to have that as an option since I'm already familiar with ocaml/reason and only barely literate in Dart (and also prefer functional languages over object oriented ones)... https://github.com/EduardoRFS/reason-mobile https://github.com/EduardoRFS/reason-mobile
  - k__ 6y ago
    Pretty cool! They have mobile platforms on their roadmap for quite some time now, but somehow the project doesn't seem to get much traction. I guess, Dart would be dead by now, if it wasn't for Google pushing it with Flutter.
WorldMaker 6y ago
The "Next" and "Next + 1" versions of React Native are starting to look quite exciting too. The Microsoft-backed full C++/WinRT rewrite of the Windows desktop support seems to be making good progress. With the Office team supposedly backing React Native as their preferred cross-platform toolkit moving forward, Microsoft looks like they'll be investing in RN for the long haul. It seems good for everybody that Microsoft seems to be putting so much work into cross-platform dev in both .NET 6 and RN.
drannex 6y ago
I'm looking forward to the first stable version of Blazor, and a way to combine it with proper native mobile bindings to device APIs. Currently working on a version combined with CapacitorJS and I am in love with the possibilities. .Net 6 is going to be beautiful.

The future of cross platform desktop development looks bright. Microsoft is coming up with .NET 6 and Google has flutter. I just hope that these frameworks can replace bulky electron apps.

k__ 6y ago

Revery also looks nice. I wish they had more funding, tho. I find Reason/OCaml more compelling than Dart.

sly010 6y ago
How is OCaml's multithreading story? Google says it's basically GIL-ed.
- blandflakes 6y ago
  Simultaneously in a state of having-been vaporware and making real progress towards being merged to master: https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-june-2020/6047 https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/multicore-ocaml-june-2020/6047
- wishinghand 6y ago
  What's GIL-ed?
thomasfortes 6y ago
There's a guy that managed to compile and run revery on android, I would love to have that as an option since I'm already familiar with ocaml/reason and only barely literate in Dart (and also prefer functional languages over object oriented ones)... https://github.com/EduardoRFS/reason-mobile https://github.com/EduardoRFS/reason-mobile
- k__ 6y ago
  Pretty cool! They have mobile platforms on their roadmap for quite some time now, but somehow the project doesn't seem to get much traction. I guess, Dart would be dead by now, if it wasn't for Google pushing it with Flutter.

WorldMaker 6y ago

The "Next" and "Next + 1" versions of React Native are starting to look quite exciting too. The Microsoft-backed full C++/WinRT rewrite of the Windows desktop support seems to be making good progress. With the Office team supposedly backing React Native as their preferred cross-platform toolkit moving forward, Microsoft looks like they'll be investing in RN for the long haul. It seems good for everybody that Microsoft seems to be putting so much work into cross-platform dev in both .NET 6 and RN.

drannex 6y ago

I'm looking forward to the first stable version of Blazor, and a way to combine it with proper native mobile bindings to device APIs. Currently working on a version combined with CapacitorJS and I am in love with the possibilities. .Net 6 is going to be beautiful.