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by pjmlp 923 days ago
Partially, you need to rely on the community for GUI stuff (Avalonia and Uno), and old Microsoft still pushes VS/Windows as the best experience, anyone else that wants a VS like experience has to buy Rider.

Yes, there is VS Code, which besides being Electron based, Microsoft is quite open that will never achieve feature parity with VS.
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wsc981 923 days ago
With regards to UI there is Microsoft’s MAUI, which I personally prefer over Avalonia. I love the single project approach of MAUI. I think Avalonia also relies on MAUI controls to some extent (I seem to recall a <UseMaui /> project setting in Avalonia projects.
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pjmlp 923 days ago
MAUI doesn't count if "supports GNU/Linux" is part of being considered FOSS proper, and on macOS they took the shortcut of using Mac Catalyst instead of macOS UI APIs.
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