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Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by hacker_9 on Friday November 03, 2017 @07:02AM (#15618179)
DOM interaction and Garbage Collectors are still a heavy research topic within the WebAssembly community, and aren't part of the MVP [1]. Plus MS would need to create a custom C# -> WASM compiler as they don't use LLVM internally. All this means you are probably going to be waiting at least another 5 years before you can compile .Net GUI apps straight to the web.

[1] http://webassembly.org/docs/future-features/

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Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by j_s on Friday November 03, 2017 @08:03AM (#15618464)
> C# -> WASM compiler

https://github.com/kg/ilwasm/ [2015]

Unfortunately, more proof of concept than anything

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Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by hacker_9 on Friday November 03, 2017 @08:46AM (#15618711)
No doubt you'll find lots of attempts on github, but no business will touch it unless it's an offical compiler with Microsoft's backing, who continue to release updates and provide support for it.
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