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by viraptor 501 days ago
Java and .Net/Avalonia are right there... Electron is not the only cross platform solution.
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infogulch 500 days ago
While .NET has the cross-platform-vm thing going, is not particularly suited to cross-platform rendering. The web is. And don't get me started on WPF.
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viraptor 500 days ago
That's why I mentioned https://avaloniaui.net/ which does the part. WPF is not bad compared to everything happening in the web frameworks.
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AcquiescentWolf 500 days ago
I disagree. After working with WPF for a while, I'd prefer almost anything from the frontend world (except React) over WPF. Avalonia is nice though.
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throwaway2037 500 days ago
Is WPF cross-plaform?
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AcquiescentWolf 500 days ago
* WPF: Windows-only.

* MAUI: Windows, macOS, Android, iOS.

* Avalonia: Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS, browsers.

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lmm 500 days ago
I can remember when the rhetoric against Java apps being "slow" was just as strong as it is against Electron now. And they've always been less native-feeling and clunkier than Electron.
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pjmlp 500 days ago
Java is a ferrari when compared to Electron.
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lmm 498 days ago
How so? I know there are theoretical arguments and microbenchmarks that Java might be faster than JavaScript, but I've never seen an actual user-facing GUI app in Java that felt smoother to use than good Electron apps.
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viraptor 500 days ago
Electron shifted the scales to below the old Java while Java improved. It's still not great, but given a choice? Let Electron die.
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