Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Sale on Visual Studio from Bleeping Computer Date: 25 May 2024 20:10:18 GMT Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <5n025jdfg7uinjejvp6p4isc4rbti2a1cl@4ax.com> <8o725jt6p9j0e5h269v7t0dhr9bdudrpp2@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net EqCN+B4nCEY7c3RMWnKE0g6UrpPnB0pp9yymNgtKgv3XIZODtL Cancel-Lock: sha1:58EBTUolmXGew8VK1EYW2kITIQE= sha256:dvY8QRfiwW3cUYnYBcXhFkSmQH1edBCqySfDr/+yhYE= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Bytes: 2309 On Sat, 25 May 2024 06:43:26 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > On 25 May 2024 05:04:28 GMT, rbowman wrote: > >> On Sat, 25 May 2024 03:25:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: >> >>> There is the question of why it had to be built on Electron, instead >>> of using Microsoft’s own Dotnet framework--wasn’t that cross-platform >>> enough? >> >> There are some attempts in the works but you can't build GUIs on Linux >> with .NET. Even MAUI omits Linux. >> >> That's one area where the various choices bite Linux on the butt. > > Seems like it’s actually biting Dotnet on the bum. Microsoft clearly > prioritizes Linux support over Dotnet. Not really. .NET Framework is mostly in bug fix mode but .NET is moving right along. As I said, MS managed to confuse things nicely. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET It fits in nicely with the Linux move. 'dotnet build --arch linux-x64' will build a Linux package on Windows. Or you could target Windows on a Linux box. Or arm64 from either. The weakness on Linux is creating GUIs. I don't know what shape the GTK# project is in. There were QTSharp and wx.net (wxWidgets) projects too. Avalonia might work. It follows the WPF xaml format. I've never played with it.