Does .NET Core also include a cross platform GUI toolkit? (Windows.Forms and WPF come to mind) If not, what toolkit would be recommended these days for this purpose?
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Announcing .NET Core 2.0
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Re: Announcing .NET Core 2.0
#22I wish I had a better sense of where cross-platform desktop app platforms stood these days: Electron, Java, .NET, QT. All I hear are "Eww, Electron is ridiculous, slow, heavy Web junk for desktop", "Eww Java is blub, insecure, and half-abandoned by Oracle", "Eww, .NET is Microsoft and unreliable for anything serious on non-MS OSes", "Eww, by the time you pay the license, learn QT, learn the odd variant of C++, and ma…
I wasn't aware .NET Core 2.0 had anything to do with desktop apps?
Re: Announcing .NET Core 2.0
#23I wish I had a better sense of where cross-platform desktop app platforms stood these days: Electron, Java, .NET, QT. All I hear are "Eww, Electron is ridiculous, slow, heavy Web junk for desktop", "Eww Java is blub, insecure, and half-abandoned by Oracle", "Eww, .NET is Microsoft and unreliable for anything serious on non-MS OSes", "Eww, by the time you pay the license, learn QT, learn the odd variant of C++, and ma…
Every technology has it's problems, and you should be careful what you use as your source of information. Always do your own research when choosing a new technology to fit your needs best, and talk to other people/consultants who have experience in this area and can point out problems before you commit to anything.
Re: Announcing .NET Core 2.0
#24I wish I had a better sense of where cross-platform desktop app platforms stood these days: Electron, Java, .NET, QT. All I hear are "Eww, Electron is ridiculous, slow, heavy Web junk for desktop", "Eww Java is blub, insecure, and half-abandoned by Oracle", "Eww, .NET is Microsoft and unreliable for anything serious on non-MS OSes", "Eww, by the time you pay the license, learn QT, learn the odd variant of C++, and ma…
The trend for multi-platform software is to build it on web technologies. There's nothing for the user to install and they can access the software from anywhere there's an internet connection.
If you need it to be offline and integrate into the operating system, then electron would be the next logical step in that direction.
If you want deep, and award winning support, you're going to have to write your product natively for each OS using native APIs. There's just no way around that requirement unfortunately.
Re: Announcing .NET Core 2.0
#25I'm enjoying reaping the rewards of all the dotnet core work in my F# projects. One critique: Why break semver? https://github.com/dotnet/standard/blob/master/docs/faq.md#w... Like I get that it feels like a big change (and it is), but you've gone and confused a huge population of library writers and users with the major version bump. https://github.com/search?q=netstandard2.0&type=Issues&utf8=... How many of those a…
do you still need to install mono in addition to core to get autocomplete on vscode ?
Also for fsharp interactive support
Also for type providers support
Things are very hit or miss in F#-land with .NET Core.
Re: Announcing .NET Core 2.0
#26Does .NET Core also include a cross platform GUI toolkit? (Windows.Forms and WPF come to mind) If not, what toolkit would be recommended these days for this purpose?
Re: Announcing .NET Core 2.0
#27I wish I had a better sense of where cross-platform desktop app platforms stood these days: Electron, Java, .NET, QT. All I hear are "Eww, Electron is ridiculous, slow, heavy Web junk for desktop", "Eww Java is blub, insecure, and half-abandoned by Oracle", "Eww, .NET is Microsoft and unreliable for anything serious on non-MS OSes", "Eww, by the time you pay the license, learn QT, learn the odd variant of C++, and ma…
Try looking at the technology used by the software you enjoy using the most. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Re: Announcing .NET Core 2.0
#28I wish I had a better sense of where cross-platform desktop app platforms stood these days: Electron, Java, .NET, QT. All I hear are "Eww, Electron is ridiculous, slow, heavy Web junk for desktop", "Eww Java is blub, insecure, and half-abandoned by Oracle", "Eww, .NET is Microsoft and unreliable for anything serious on non-MS OSes", "Eww, by the time you pay the license, learn QT, learn the odd variant of C++, and ma…
For the desktop, electron has mostly won really, the web browser becoming the primary most widely used platform for delivering applications made shipping a desktop application with an embedded browser the next obvious choice.
Re: Announcing .NET Core 2.0
#29Why are there so few new languages built on the .NET platform ? This is a genuine question - is there something about the JVM that gives rise to such vibrant ecosystems. Clojure, Scala, Kotlin, Groovy, JRuby : Most importantly, every one of them is in production use - not just as toy/experimental languages. And we havent even opened the Pandora's box that is Java 9+Truffle. There's a lot of broscience that .NET is su…
OK well .Net has Clojure, F#, C#, VB and Rosyln (compiler as a service). CLR vs JVM wise; both are highly optimized virtual machines with years of man hours behind each of them.
Re: Announcing .NET Core 2.0
#30I wish I had a better sense of where cross-platform desktop app platforms stood these days: Electron, Java, .NET, QT. All I hear are "Eww, Electron is ridiculous, slow, heavy Web junk for desktop", "Eww Java is blub, insecure, and half-abandoned by Oracle", "Eww, .NET is Microsoft and unreliable for anything serious on non-MS OSes", "Eww, by the time you pay the license, learn QT, learn the odd variant of C++, and ma…
Try looking at the technology used by the software you enjoy using the most. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
That's always a good suggestion and provides existence proofs, but you have to remind yourself that apps can take years to become favorites, so favorite apps tend to favor older technologies even when the older technologies might not be better.