Re: Sale on Visual Studio from Bleeping Computer

On Sat, 25 May 2024 03:25:11 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

There is the question of why it had to be built on Electron, instead of
using Microsoft’s own Dotnet framework--wasn’t that cross-platform
enough?

There are some attempts in the works but you can't build GUIs on Linux
with .NET.  Even MAUI omits Linux.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/maui/what-is-maui?view=net-
maui-8.0

That's one area where the various choices bite Linux on the butt.