[tov_objorkin]

About five years ago i have a dream, that i can abandon all this peasant C/C++ development and jump into mono/xamarin train. As a main product we have Linux ARM/MIPS karaoke machine with optional remote control via desktop/mobile apps. The idea was to use same code every where.

- Tooling for Linux was horrible, like really! - Alien mobile UI look and feel - One can not simple build mobile app for desktop. - New shiny search engine prototype doesn't fit into low tier Phone RAM. - Mono Hello world application on MIPS device with 128RAM uses about 28 mb of RAM. - 400 MHz cpu have really hard times with GC, nogo for soft-realtime. - No seamless integration with native code, using libs like ffmpeg is crazy hard. - F# was 2nd citizen in that time!

Now things changed, but still imho Linux is not a good choose for .net, also MS force you to use Azure/Cloud/etc infrastructure.

[tracker1]

I was thinking in the context of mobile.. TBH, depending on my needs, I'd probably just fallback to an electron app for desktop at this point. Not good for lighter systems though.

.Net doesn't force Azure/Cloud at all. I know all the MS demos tend in that direction, but you can absolutely use it all internally. I've worked on several backends targeting docker and linux with .Net core at this point. Even ARM as a target is decent. GUI, no idea on that, I tend to prefer react+redux+material-ui there.