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There may well be some niggles that affect a small number of people doing some niche things under specific circumstances, but I don't think that's enough to cla
by GordonS 6y ago
There may well be some niggles that affect a small number of people doing some niche things under specific circumstances, but I don't think that's enough to claims it's not cross-platform.
Since dotnet core became a thing, I've been building cross-platform apps with great success - mostly Windows and Linux, occasionally MacOS too, and mostly x64, but also ARM too.
- iso8859-1 6y agoA GUI application that is not web-based is not a niche use case. A build system is not a niche use case. I see you have been posting Wintel news. Do you have any affiliation?
- GordonS 6y agoOK, we agree that Microsoft doesn't have their own cross-platform GUI library, but that's a very different thing from dotnet core/5 not being cross platform. Also, there are OSS GUI libraries not from Microsoft. Frankly, at this point native, cross-platform GUIs are a niche. I used to write a lot of Windows-only GUIs (mostly WinForms, some WPF), but haven't written a desktop GUI for around 10 years now. If I was to now, I'd try one of those aforementioned OSS libs, or maybe use Electron. I know Electon gets a lot of hate on HN, but VS Code shows it's possible to do well. Not sure if you meant it that way, but accusations of shilling are forbidden here on HN. I've no affiliation with Microsoft, I'm just a long-time, dotnet developer that loves C# and the ecosystem.