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Rohansi • yesterday at 6:40 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

What's missing from cross-platform support? You can basically run it everywhere already?


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jdw64 • yesterday at 7:39 PM

MAUI is still not great, is it? I remember Linux wasn't supported either. I tried MAUI on macOS, but honestly it's hard to consider that supported. Many people use WinForms and WPF, but these don't support cross-platform, and honestly WinUI 3 is also lacking. On the server side, TypeScript is actually better (both are Microsoft languages).

In fact, desktop apps are mostly used for factories or Windows-only programs, which is a bit disappointing. It's a very good language for making games and the most widely used language for factory programming, but whether to build a product with it is a bit ambiguous. I'd use it when making a program for a specific customer, but for a product I'd probably use TypeScript.

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