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.NET MAUI is coming to Linux and the browser

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304 points vyrotek | 7 comments | 11 Nov 25 22:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source | bottom
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sylens ◴[11 Nov 25 23:45 UTC] No.45894469[source]▶
MAUI has felt like a barebones project for years. Forgive me if I don't believe this is the beginning of more robust support.
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labrador ◴[11 Nov 25 23:59 UTC] No.45894590[source]▶
Microsoft acts when it feels competitive pressure. I think Google's Flutter has been validated so Microsoft feels the need to respond.
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keyle ◴[12 Nov 25 00:09 UTC] No.45894675[source]▶
Dart is a wonderful language though. I'm not switching back to using .NET anytime soon.
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1. labrador ◴[12 Nov 25 00:31 UTC] No.45894869[source]▶
I love Dart, which I consider to be Google's C#. Either language is fine with me.
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2. drykjdryj ◴[12 Nov 25 01:48 UTC] No.45895469[source]▶
Go is google's c#.
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3. labrador ◴[12 Nov 25 01:53 UTC] No.45895498[source]▶
Dart is much closer to C# than Go is
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4. Quothling ◴[12 Nov 25 07:18 UTC] No.45897243[source]▶
Go is frankly the polar opposite of C#. Go compiles to a native binary with no runtime dependencies and it relies on simple garbage collection and static linking. C# runs on the .NET runtime which is heavily managed, gives you JIT, reflection, dynamic code generation and so on. Go views concurrency as fire and forget, C# views it as compose and await. Go is extremely explicit while C# is extremely implicit.

Now, I understand that you may talk about it from a non-technical perspective, but even so, there are major differences. C# is a general purpose language for the cloud/web, and so is Go, but Go is also widely used in other areas like in embeded software. TinyGo is soooooooo much better than working with C/C++ or Rust as an example. Places like that where you wouldn't usually find a transpiled language (other than maybe Python with MicroPython).

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5. mrcsharp ◴[12 Nov 25 07:32 UTC] No.45897312{3}[source]▶
C# has AOT compilation which creates a single, native binary. This has gotten so much better with .NET 10 and since the introduction of source generators to deal with reflection issues.

Also, check out nanoFramework for a .NET runtime that can run on MCUs like the ESP32 [1]

[1] https://github.com/nanoframework/Home

6. DeathArrow ◴[12 Nov 25 07:42 UTC] No.45897358{3}[source]▶
.NET can be compiled to native binaries. .NET can be used for embedded development.

C# is more expressive and .NET comes with batteries included. Go is more explicit and more verbose.

You can pick up Go faster and is easier to reason about Go code when you first encounter a new project but C# feels like it enables you to develop faster and be more productive.

For web both are excellent and performant, even if they have different philosophy.

What I like about C# is that it becomes more functional and I can even mix F# in the projects if I want even more functional programming.

7. zigzag312 ◴[12 Nov 25 12:10 UTC] No.45899191{3}[source]▶
Originally, C# was more like Dart, but modern C# is like both Dart and Go combined and that's (IMO) the beauty of it.

Newish low level features of C#: https://em-tg.github.io/csborrow/