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Re:What Makes .NET Core So Special? by giancarlostoro on Friday November 09, 2018 @06:23AM (#18413696)
> Microsoft have announced that they will be porting WinForms and WPF over to .NET Core so that they no longer need the heavyweight .NET Framework. However, this DOES NOT make WinForms/WPF cross-platform. They will still be restricted to Windows but will allow you the benefits of .NET Core, such as allowing side-by-side versioning.

They've come back full circle to forking Java for Windows only usage. .NET is the closest competitor to Java as it gets in terms of similar ideas, a VM, a bytecode for your VM, a C-like language to be compiled to said bytecode, and so on. .NET IMHO is the only serious alternative to Java and a damn good one at that, and I would dare say vice versa though I will always prefer .NET personally, I wouldn't mind Java at least.

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Re:What Makes .NET Core So Special? by mr_overalls on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:41AM (#18415706)
What in the world ever happened to Xamarin? Weren't they acquired by Microsoft two years ago? I felt sure we'd have a nice cross-platform desktop GUI by now. . .

I'm feeling more fearful that they acquired Xamarin just to destroy it.

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Re:What Makes .NET Core So Special? by ivm on Friday November 09, 2018 @05:54PM (#18418715)
It's actively developed but there's no mature cross-platform UI (Xamarin.Forms is mostly mobile and has many issues). Using something like MvvmCross combined with native UIs on each platform is the best option for now.
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Re:What Makes .NET Core So Special? by giancarlostoro on Friday November 09, 2018 @12:30PM (#18416143)
The only use I ever saw of it by others was to make mobile apps for both Android and iOS so I think it will stay there worse case.
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