True, but what I’m really talking about is the unbeatable user experience of having an application that looks and feels as if it were a native Windows application, because it is and has that first-class platform support straight from the vendor.

With that said, most new cross platform applications today are probably more like electron or Web apps.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, there's no such thing as native Windows apps for Linux, but there are cross platform GUI frameworks like Avalonia and Uno that can produce apps with a polished identical experience across all platforms, no electron needed

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Qt is my favourite, though it's not .NET.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Good lord, I've never seen anyone say this in public. I used Qt Creator for a couple of years and I found the combination of C++ for under the hood and Javascript for the UI to be a fantastic way of ensuring a nearly nonexistent base of developers who could competently do both. Maybe they grow on trees in Finland, I dunno. And maybe you're talking about some other "Qt", I also dunno.

I've done C# and Java extensively as well and I would never choose Qt over them. I might choose Qt over Objective-C, however.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What does fully cross platform mean? It sounds very vague and a lot like an exaggeration.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

The standard .NET C# compiler and CLI run on and build for Windows, MacOS, and Linux. You can run your ASP.NET webapps in a Linux docker container, or write console apps and run them on Linux, it doesn't matter anymore. As a .NET dev I have literally no reason to ever touch Windows, unless I'm touching legacy code from before .NET Core or building a Windows-exclusive app using a Windows app framework.

[–] wiezy_lrwi@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The sdk and runtime are available on all operating systems. I have used nvim on Ubuntu (wsl) to write and execute C#.

[–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

See all Operating Systems is a steep claim, that is how I originally misunderstood the meaning of fully cross platform.

I'm relatively certain that it won't run on DOS or an Arduino, thereby instantly disproving the 'all operating systems'.

[–] slappypantsgo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is there anything out there that’s that literal?

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I mean, if you mean "the most common", that's way different. There's ones in use it definitely won't run on.