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What you're describing already exists today, that's exactly what Blazor is: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor https://dotnet.micro

What you're describing already exists today, that's exactly what Blazor is: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz... Blazor lets you build web apps using C#. It achieves that by running C# inside WebAssembly.

devjab 3y ago
Blazor is silly. It’s more complicated to use than simply using React/Angular/Whatever you want and it’s less efficient, take up huge amounts of space and is much harder to debug. Coupled with how hard it is to actually build reusable components in any sane way… It may get there eventually, but as with most C# things these days, it’s mostly meant to sell other Microsoft products to the horde of developers who view themselves as single language developers. The real risk isn’t so much in the technology, however, it’s in whether or not Microsoft abandons it before it’s good like they have with their previous GUI frameworks going all the way back to ASP classic. I know that angular made a big leap from JS to TS, but aside from that, your major JS frameworks have been fairly stable in the same time frame that Microsoft has gone through web forms, mvc, razor, whatever the hell the web-api bundled with X period was and now Blazor, and what is the most telling of all is how virtually every Microsoft Office365 product is written in JS. Would you really bet on a semi-shitty technology that doesn’t even see adoption within the company that makes it? Well, I guess you do considering you’re using C#.
josephg 3y ago
Yeah I know; but blazor is huge because it needs to ship its own garbage collector and object runtime. Google says 1.3mb for a hello world blazor app. With wasm-GC, blazor should get way faster and smaller. And the blazor-(JS & DOM) bridge can be massively simplified too. I don't see any good reason for blazor apps to be any larger than the equivalent react app. And that will make it a much more viable platform.
DonHopkins 3y ago
There's also something that you might have actually already heard of called Unity3D. And it's actually widely used and supported and taught by more than a few people and companies and educational institutions.

devjab 3y ago

Blazor is silly. It’s more complicated to use than simply using React/Angular/Whatever you want and it’s less efficient, take up huge amounts of space and is much harder to debug. Coupled with how hard it is to actually build reusable components in any sane way… It may get there eventually, but as with most C# things these days, it’s mostly meant to sell other Microsoft products to the horde of developers who view themselves as single language developers. The real risk isn’t so much in the technology, however, it’s in whether or not Microsoft abandons it before it’s good like they have with their previous GUI frameworks going all the way back to ASP classic. I know that angular made a big leap from JS to TS, but aside from that, your major JS frameworks have been fairly stable in the same time frame that Microsoft has gone through web forms, mvc, razor, whatever the hell the web-api bundled with X period was and now Blazor, and what is the most telling of all is how virtually every Microsoft Office365 product is written in JS. Would you really bet on a semi-shitty technology that doesn’t even see adoption within the company that makes it? Well, I guess you do considering you’re using C#.

josephg 3y ago

Yeah I know; but blazor is huge because it needs to ship its own garbage collector and object runtime. Google says 1.3mb for a hello world blazor app. With wasm-GC, blazor should get way faster and smaller. And the blazor-(JS & DOM) bridge can be massively simplified too. I don't see any good reason for blazor apps to be any larger than the equivalent react app. And that will make it a much more viable platform.

DonHopkins 3y ago

There's also something that you might have actually already heard of called Unity3D. And it's actually widely used and supported and taught by more than a few people and companies and educational institutions.