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by Ygg2 613 days ago
> Why would you need to reinvent networking layer instead of just sending http requests via matrue, battle tested lib available in your programming ecosystem e.g from MSFT?

Because modern browsers are essentially cross-compatible OSes.
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high_na_euv 613 days ago
So is .net
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eqvinox 613 days ago
You've clearly never tried to use .net on a non-MS OS. Sure, it's possible. But it's also a royal pain, at least last time I checked.
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high_na_euv 612 days ago
I had .net on prod linux since 2018 and it works very fine seamlessly, web apps.

Things changed after core

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eqvinox 612 days ago
I'm happy to hear of your experience, but all we have at this point is a sample size of 2 with one good experience and one poor one…

(I've tried [and failed/given up after about 2 weeks] to get a .net desktop application to build on Linux.)

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neonsunset 612 days ago
I hope you haven't been trying to use Mono or something obscure for this, which unfortunately happens from time to time.

If you have .NET SDK installed (you can get it with apt/dnf install dotnet8 or dotnet-sdk-8.0), you only need the following:

  dotnet new install Avalonia.Templates
  dotnet new avalonia.app
  dotnet run
If you don't like XAML, you can use https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia.Markup.Declarative to write declarative SwiftUI-like code. You can also use F# if that's your cup of tea: https://github.com/fsprojects/Avalonia.FuncUI.

If you prefer GTK, there are rich GObject bindings that are a successor to GTK#: https://gircore.github.io/

Here are samples that demonstrate basic GTK4 usage scenarios: https://github.com/gircore/gir.core/tree/main/src/Samples/Gt...

All this should require less than 10 minutes including setup and such.

Lastly, I want to make a disclaimer that you do not need C# Dev Kit extension (which requires an account that annoys many people, including me) for VS Code, only the base C# one, which is what gives you language server, debugger, etc. If you are using VSCodium which cannot use closed-source vsdbg component that the base extension uses, you can replace it with https://github.com/muhammadsammy/free-vscode-csharp which uses open-source debugger from Samsung instead. It can be rough around the edges but works well enough in standard scenarios. Just don't use Debugger.WriteLine over Console. :D

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