Microsoft’s .NET is an open-source platform for building desktop apps and mobile apps (and more) using C#, F# and Visual Basic. Does this sound too good to be true? For example, Electron is often discussed on HN (liked and disliked), but .NET is far less discussed as a cross-platform option. Similarly, Xamarin is a platform built on top of .NET for building Android and iOS apps (using one codebase). This sounds like the holy grail of mobile development. But what is the reality? I did a search on HN and found no stories about Xamarin from the last year. The top search results are HN stories from 5-10 years ago. This makes me wonder how popular .NET is for cross-platform desktop or mobile apps. What has been your experience using .NET writing cross-platform desktop and mobile apps?
Story Published at: August 24, 2022 at 12:58PM
Story Published at: August 24, 2022 at 12:58PM