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> NET is being sunsetted in favor of .NET Core, but the latter still doesn’t have desktop support and shows no signs of it. What do you mean? You can build des
by binarynate 5y ago
> NET is being sunsetted in favor of .NET Core, but the latter still doesn’t have desktop support and shows no signs of it.
What do you mean? You can build desktop Windows WPF or Winforms apps with the new .NET. There's also MAUI for cross-platform desktop apps.
- mwattsun 5y agoI think parent is thinking of .NET Core 3 and doesn't realize that v5 and 6 add back many missing features and .NET Core is now just called .NET again.
- ironmagma 5y agoThanks for informing me. I hadn’t heard this so I’ll check these out.
- binarynate 5y agoYou're welcome!
- sblom 5y agoYep. Probably the confusing name change threw him off the scent. What would have been ".NET Core 5" is just ".NET 5", and that's when the bulk of the desktop framework compat came online.
- ironmagma 5y agoYeah. Someone could make a case study out of this for why marketing should not have final say on the names of technologies.
- oaiey 5y agoI think marketing was not involved there. I think some manager made the decision after talking to some CTO of customers. Same for the unfortunate MAUI naming. Both cases could have been prevented by a week of proper field research.
- CameronNemo 5y agoReminder that Microsoft is trying to steal the name MAUI from an existing open source project. Microsoft <3 Linux https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/34 https://github.com/dotnet/maui/issues/34