Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NET core and ASP.NET core

Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by cm2187 on Friday November 03, 2017 @06:50AM (#15618117)

It's even worse than that. It makes apps expensive and slower to develop across platforms, makes different version more complicated to maintain and keep in sync, creates more attack surface, etc. And even from a non technical point of view, there is a consistency of experience across platforms point of view. There are very good reasons to have fully cross platform apps that you develop only once.

And in general, I don't think developers are being lazy by going for higher level languages like java, c# or python. Ease of use has a lot of value, particularly if the underlying problem you are trying to solve isn't simple.

The last thing is forward compatibility. If I write an objective-c app, it will only be compatible with apple's platform. Say a new kind of platform appears that takes a significant market share (AR?), there is a lot of value in your app being compatible with this platform without needing even to recompile it, just because the cross platform framework you use will be ported to that platform.

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Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by pjmlp on Friday November 03, 2017 @07:54AM (#15618424)

I rather have a portable application that takes advantage of the best features on each platform that it runs, than the minimum common denomitor that is the web.

Ergo developers taking the easy route to the expense of user's overall UI/UX.

Thankfully all web based mobile OSes bombed so far.

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Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by bsaul on Friday November 03, 2017 @11:20AM (#15619822)

that was my position for the last 7 years about hybrid vs native on mobile. but with the recent slowdown on new features on mobile, i'd say even the common denominator is probably largely sufficient for 99% of the apps.

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Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by cm2187 on Friday November 03, 2017 @08:04AM (#15618470)

I totally agree that html+javascript isn't a good answer to cross platform (for the reasons you mention, and because of javascript's own merits). But the ability to develop an app once and run it on multiple platforms is long overdue. And any effort in that direction is welcome. Having to learn 10 different languages and UI frameworks isn't a solution.

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Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by pjmlp on Saturday November 04, 2017 @03:19AM (#15624125)

It is only an issue for those that are Language X Developer.

As consultant and polyglot developer, using C++ and eventually something else for the view isn't a problem at all.

And it doesn't have to be C++, there are other portable native languages to choose from.

Also web developers don't have any issue changing frameworks or languages that compile into JavaScript, almost every month.

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Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by j_s on Friday November 03, 2017 @01:26PM (#15620805)

> _It_ makes apps expensive and slower to develop across platforms

Can you clarify specifically what you mean by _It_ there? Maybe (working backwards up the comment chain...) C++, Qt, MVC, "writing apps without spending any real effort", duplicating "applications across multiple OS and hardware architectures" (my vote for most likely), Xamarin.Forms, "easy to use portable desktop application framework", or something else?

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