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I'm not even sure which one I'm hoping for at the moment. Xamarin seems to have bet fully on mobile. Avalonia looks nice but feels like it would need some enterprise backing.
Can't we just make a proper, easy to use portable desktop application framework please? I really don't care what language is used so log as JS is avoidable (It can still be a compilation target so it could even be JS), and I can make a snappy desktop app that takes 10 not 100mb. I'm not even sure which one I'm hoping for at the moment. Xamarin seems to have bet fully on mobile. Avalonia looks nice but feels like it w…
The difficulty is that people used to agree (and at varying times, sue each other) over which metaphors to use. The desktop platforms are growing further apart on this front.
Linux has so much work-in-progress happening at any one time that sustainable fusion is closer than a finished and implemented Wayland. Windows is still pushing a "modern" UI metaphor that no-one can stand. Apple has to my knowledge never shown any interest in what you're proposing at all.
That leaves the option of creating another UI layer on top for the app to sit in, and Electron/HTML5 isn't a terrible fit for that.
Maybe trying to get rolling with LLVM and emscripten to run the Electron logic is your answer, or Typescript if it helps ameliorate some of the JS qualms for you.
Can't we just make a proper, easy to use portable desktop application framework please? I really don't care what language is used so log as JS is avoidable (It can still be a compilation target so it could even be JS), and I can make a snappy desktop app that takes 10 not 100mb. I'm not even sure which one I'm hoping for at the moment. Xamarin seems to have bet fully on mobile. Avalonia looks nice but feels like it w…
Qt ticks all your marks (though the "easy" part is through QML which is a superset of JS), + mobile, (+ one day web maybe https://msorvig.github.io/qt-webassembly-examples/window_ope... though that's fairly experimental).
This reminds me of the project I am currently working on. .NET/QML https://github.com/pauldotknopf/net-core-qml Not quite production yet, but it will be soon. I'd love to here some input. You can check the unit tests for how things are working currently. At a certain point, I will also implement a Qml debugger in visual studio code.
I was really excited when I saw this because I thought someone had finally brought us a .net alternative to electron, using xaml. Unfortunately this seems to be electron but with a .net webapp running in the background? You still need node and webkit for the UI it seems. If that's what this is, it was already possible to do with edge.js and electron so I'm not sure what advantage there is here.
Can't we just make a proper, easy to use portable desktop application framework please? I really don't care what language is used so log as JS is avoidable (It can still be a compilation target so it could even be JS), and I can make a snappy desktop app that takes 10 not 100mb. I'm not even sure which one I'm hoping for at the moment. Xamarin seems to have bet fully on mobile. Avalonia looks nice but feels like it w…
There's always PyQt which works cross platform
Can't we just make a proper, easy to use portable desktop application framework please? I really don't care what language is used so log as JS is avoidable (It can still be a compilation target so it could even be JS), and I can make a snappy desktop app that takes 10 not 100mb. I'm not even sure which one I'm hoping for at the moment. Xamarin seems to have bet fully on mobile. Avalonia looks nice but feels like it w…
Does the binary size matter? Memory footprint is more important. There's always PyQt which works cross platform
100MB/app is in the range of "I am not going to download it" unless I have a damned good reason to. Doubly so for updates...
Can't we just make a proper, easy to use portable desktop application framework please? I really don't care what language is used so log as JS is avoidable (It can still be a compilation target so it could even be JS), and I can make a snappy desktop app that takes 10 not 100mb. I'm not even sure which one I'm hoping for at the moment. Xamarin seems to have bet fully on mobile. Avalonia looks nice but feels like it w…
> Can't we just make a proper, easy to use portable desktop application framework please? Qt ticks all your marks (though the "easy" part is through QML which is a superset of JS), + mobile, (+ one day web maybe https://msorvig.github.io/qt-webassembly-examples/window_ope... though that's fairly experimental).
Also you can't statically link the GPL version which is just a bit of a pain.
I agree if it allowed static linking and wasn't huge it would be perfect. Even so there aren't any better alternatives, but it sucks you can't make something as small and portable as e.g. putty.exe, or depends.exe.