Ask HN: Are you using .NET to write cross-platform desktop or mobile apps?

Post by sandreas » Wed, Aug 24, 2022, 11:29 PM UTC

zigzag312 wrote: post #78

sandreas wrote: post #75

As a C# developer currently trying to improve my skills in UI development this HN thread is enlightening (thank you) but really demoralizing... I noted down the following technologies to be the next thing to learn / take a look at: * MAUI + Blazor Hybrid (no official linux support, which usually is a no go for me) * AvaloniaUI (looked very promising, especially the 11 Preview1[1], although not microsoft) * Uno Platfo…

Dart feels like a lite version of C#, so it shouldn't take you too long to learn. Performance wise Flutter too has room for improvement. Although, I don't know how Flutter's performance compares to Avalonia. Flutter, being young framework itself, is probably more mature than Avalonia, Uno or MAUI. Also, Flutter has very good documentation and learning materials and bigger community. When I'm working with Flutter I do…

Post by giaour » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 12:09 AM UTC

yrgulation wrote: post #63

giaour wrote: post #54

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Teams is also very bloated (or "full featured" depending on how you want to spin it) compared to other chat apps, which does make it special by comparison. Teams is trying very hard to make itself a platform, and it supports telephony in a way that other chat apps don't. I can be reached on my work Teams account via a dedicated phone number, and the account includes a bunch of Viva applications and pretty deep integr…

First indicator that teams is ill designed is feature creep. But i suppose people find some utility in it. Telephony is likely handled by a server and teams is acting as a video / voice client just like any other modern chat app. I dont know about its integration with office and other microsoft bloatware but i do imagine those integrations are poorly designed as well. Microsoft products are well known for taking up m…

Post by whycombagator » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 1:13 AM UTC

naikrovek wrote: post #55

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I've deployed an MAUI-app to production. I chose MAUI since the rest of the stack is dotnet and we have ready built SDKs in dotnet to communicate with the backend, so I had a functioning login page up and running in minutes. It was a very frustrating experience in the early days, but as MAUI has matured it's now a pleasure to work with. It is not as feature rich as some other frameworks, but it fulfilled our needs.

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Post by zerr » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 2:18 PM UTC

thesuperbigfrog wrote: post #3

You might want to consider how much Microsoft uses it in their own products before choosing to use it. This article describes the situation pretty well: "not even Microsoft, literally the people who own Xamarin, use it in any of their big products like Teams, Outlook, and the list goes on. Instead, they reach for native development or Electron. So we can just tie a bow in it and have a minute's silence for another en…

Post by Crank76 » Wed, Aug 31, 2022, 2:44 PM UTC