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Post by kevindqc » Wed, May 24, 2017, 6:04 PM UTC

maxxxxx wrote: post #29

oblio wrote: post #6

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…

I have never heard anything positive about Xamarin.Forms from people who have used it. Has this improved?

Post by tluyben2 » Wed, May 24, 2017, 6:32 PM UTC

maxxxxx wrote: post #29

oblio wrote: post #6

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…

I have never heard anything positive about Xamarin.Forms from people who have used it. Has this improved?

Post by roryisok » Wed, May 24, 2017, 6:50 PM UTC

camus2 wrote: post #30

arenaninja wrote: post #28

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.

> This is exciting news, but in the world of Electron apps I do wonder if it is not too late already. 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).

Post by roryisok » Wed, May 24, 2017, 6:54 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #34

badprose wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know that people missed it, or we're still suspicious of "one UI framework to rule them all"...

Every single time I am forced to do web development, I miss such frameworks.

Post by roryisok » Wed, May 24, 2017, 7:06 PM UTC

pjmlp wrote: post #36

arenaninja wrote: post #28

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.

Thankfully no one around me is either using Electron or thinking about even trying it out. As for Qt, web devs have C++ allergy, hence why the company behind Qt came up with QML. exactly to fight against this trend.