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Eto is very interesting but unfortunately there seems to be just 1 (very active) developer behind it, from what I can see. On the other hand, Xamarin.Forms had an announcement recently, an announcement that Hacker News missed. I submitted the news a few days ago but it didn't reach the first page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14383467 -> https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ TL;DR: Xamari…
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I don't know that people missed it, or we're still suspicious of "one UI framework to rule them all"...
The major factor is obviously the fear of Microsoft lock-in, I think. Which is reasonable. If it's more about the technical details, such as general issues regarding cross platform UI frameworks, I think we're way past that point considering HTML5/Js :)
Apparently this is a hot topic. The options I'm aware of are: https://github.com/picoe/Eto (OP - BSD) https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia (MIT) Currently only with a preview for Mac, Xamarin.Forms is roadmapped for desktop platforms "Q3 2017": https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ Licensing for Xamarin Forms was funky for a while (required paying for Xamarin prior to MS acquisition) but appear…
And for games, there's MonoGame. http://www.monogame.net/ It's based on the old XNA framework. At least one successful commercial game (Fez) was written with it.
Bastion was another one that comes to my mind.
As additional remark, indies have been doing games in C# since the Managed DirectX days.
Given the title, it seems that this should rather link to the framework itself ( https://github.com/picoe/Eto ).
Or even the blog post about the framework ( https://www.browseemall.com/Blog/index.php/2017/05/23/creati... ).
https://github.com/SirCmpwn/TrueCraft/blob/master/TrueCraft....
I hereby release it into the public domain.
Qt has been around for a while and though it gained traction Electron is far outpacing it. It seems that there is no ASP.NET Core since it was borne out of an actual use case with ASP.NET.
Again, kudos to the author and it seems like a great technical feat, but to my knowledge what matters is adoption rate.
Eto is very interesting but unfortunately there seems to be just 1 (very active) developer behind it, from what I can see. On the other hand, Xamarin.Forms had an announcement recently, an announcement that Hacker News missed. I submitted the news a few days ago but it didn't reach the first page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14383467 -> https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ TL;DR: Xamari…
This is exciting news, but in the world of Electron apps I do wonder if it is not too late already. Qt has been around for a while and though it gained traction Electron is far outpacing it. It seems that there is no ASP.NET Core since it was borne out of an actual use case with ASP.NET. Again, kudos to the author and it seems like a great technical feat, but to my knowledge what matters is adoption rate.
You're acting like the whole desktop app industry has moved to implementing desktop apps in HTML with Electron.
Fortunately for users this assertion is false, given how shitty most Electron apps are usability and performance wise (VSCode being the only exception).