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Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by roryisok on Friday November 03, 2017 @09:09AM (#15618872)
Even web assembly would still require a full webkit / browser instance though. UWP or WPF apps that run XAML don't have a browser instance (unless they use webview) and the memory footprint is much much lower than the equivalent electron app. I'd like to see cross platform xaml so I can build a .net core app with a GUI that will run on Mac or Linux.
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Re:Electron.Net: Build cross platform desktop apps using .NE... by LemurMadness on Monday November 06, 2017 @11:26AM (#15636531)
It looks like there's two options for cross-platform XAML UIs:

* Prism [1], which doesn't seem to support .NET Core. It was originally created by Microsoft Patterns & Practices, but then open sourced it. It's now community maintained. It looks like it's still being actively developed as there was a merge 4 days ago.

* Avalonia [2], which supports .NET Core but is still in alpha.

[1] https://github.com/PrismLibrary/Prism [2] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

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