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> Sparc > Presence of platform-specific GUI libraries makes different cross-platform libraries worse > Supporting both self-contained and runtime-dependent le
by neonsunset 3y ago
> Sparc
> Presence of platform-specific GUI libraries makes different cross-platform libraries worse
> Supporting both self-contained and runtime-dependent lean binaries is bad
Hopefully this reply is a bait, otherwise I give the exercise in mental gymnastics a solid 7/10.
- lmm 3y agoIn Java-land, someone puts a jar on their website, and it will work on whatever OS, on whatever architecture, even if it's a GUI program. In C#-land, that doesn't seem to be how it works. If it's a GUI program it'll probably depend on WinForms and fundamentally not work on official .net core for non-windows. It might work on Mono if you're lucky, but often it won't. And whether or not the program "could" work on your OS/architecture, most of the time what they'll put up on the website is a single-platform binary. Whatever the theoretical advantages, as someone just trying to actually use the thing on my computer, that's worse.
- neonsunset 3y agoThis almost makes me feel like we're back in 2007. Everything is so much simpler, my mother just finished cooking borscht and is calling me to kitchen. Life is good.