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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by benjaminl on Thursday February 22, 2018 @02:43AM (#16435927)
It is amazing that React and friends work as well as they do, and for certain applications they make a lot of sense. But there is a fundamental disconnect using web technologies for native apps.

The solution I am pursuing right now is Microsoft's Xamarin. The C#\XAML stack supports iOS, Android, MacOS and Android. The only thing it is missing is web. But with a couple serious projects working on compiling C# to WebAssembly perhaps that will happen.

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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by pjmlp on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:41AM (#16436165)
Microsoft is serious on the WebAssembly part.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/webdev/2018/02/06/blazor-ex...

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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by tonyedgecombe on Thursday February 22, 2018 @03:34AM (#16436132)
I thought it was just a poor winforms clone on macOS.
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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by benjaminl on Thursday February 22, 2018 @08:26AM (#16437357)
Like the rest of Xamarin's platforms, you can use modern XAML with MVVM patterns or you can use XCode's Interface Builder to create your views.

Xamarin.Forms has no relationship to WinForms.

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Re:Electron 2.0.0 beta by oblio on Thursday February 22, 2018 @04:02AM (#16436269)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Xamarin just wraps Cocoa.
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