Will it be cross-platform?
The UI isn't native, is a Skia canvass with drawn controls. But it'll work on basically every OS and it's pretty good.
Also, you're not writing JavaScript, so that's a win any day in my book.
And unfortunately, the only stench I can't stand more than Google's is Microsoft's.
yes
BUT That's now officially unsupported as all of Xamarin Forms is no longer supported and the MAUI replacement doesn't cover Linux nor does that look likely (MAUI is mired deep in problems due over-ambition, failure to resource and it seems a significant push in MS to use MAUI Hybrid aka web UIs within native apps).
It is like the Web folks, that don't get anything else, are now pushing where .NET goes, mostly since .NET is now under Azure org chart.
I have done Web and native since "forever", not everything has to be for everything.
- OS X: MonoMac or net6.0-
- Linux: GTK+
- Windows: Windows Forms (using GDI or Direct2D) or WPF
- Gtk3: https://github.com/GtkSharp/GtkSharp
- Gtk4: https://github.com/gircore/gir.coreThere's the first party MAUI which is an updated version of Xamarin Forms. The two best-known third-party implementations are AvaloniaUI and Uno. I prefer Uno, it has more cross-platform targets.
https://docs.tryphotino.io/Overview
Which lets you run Blazor (web framework) like a desktop UI across all major desktop platforms. Microsoft has MAUI/Blazor as a thing, but only targets Mac and Windows ATM, so Photino bridges the gap for Linux.
Photino lets you use anything other than just .NET but has pretty decent .NET support.
If you cared about disk or memory usage you wouldn’t use electron, anyway.
mingw is a GNU's header/library environment (tools too maybe?) to create windows compatible applications. So I'd look into searching mingw .net and/or mingw mono.
also, ask your favorite AI, they're good at this type of question so long as it's not up to the minute news