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sylens ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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 ◴[] No.45894675[source]
Dart is a wonderful language though. I'm not switching back to using .NET anytime soon.
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labrador ◴[] No.45894869[source]
I love Dart, which I consider to be Google's C#. Either language is fine with me.
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drykjdryj ◴[] No.45895469[source]
Go is google's c#.
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Quothling ◴[] 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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1. mrcsharp ◴[] No.45897312[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