Software Engineer and jack-of-all-trades, mostly working with machine learning and AWS.
Interested in the trends in tech and working out how we can use them!
To echo what a lot of others are saying here, Electron is probably the way to go!
It can definitely be a resource hog - but its normally "good enough" for most applications. Not to mention it's probably the most accessible option for most developers; the skills needed are really democratised, so more help/support available and if you're looking to open-source it has a higher likely-hood of contributors etc.
Also personally, making progress with an app is wayyyy more satisfying than having to learn a whole load of new toolsets first!
When it comes to other options, I've done some work in .Net Core cross-platform and wasn't a fan but its an option that I'm sure someone here will fight its corner, think I would if I wasn't tainted from my WPF for Vista (Honestly, terrible) project a few years ago.
For other options past those two, all I can think is to hack up the famous Bjarne Stroustrup quote; there's two classes of tools - the ones people complain about, and the ones no one uses.
Software Engineer and jack-of-all-trades, mostly working with machine learning and AWS.
Interested in the trends in tech and working out how we can use them!
To echo what a lot of others are saying here, Electron is probably the way to go!
It can definitely be a resource hog - but its normally "good enough" for most applications. Not to mention it's probably the most accessible option for most developers; the skills needed are really democratised, so more help/support available and if you're looking to open-source it has a higher likely-hood of contributors etc.
Also personally, making progress with an app is wayyyy more satisfying than having to learn a whole load of new toolsets first!
When it comes to other options, I've done some work in .Net Core cross-platform and wasn't a fan but its an option that I'm sure someone here will fight its corner, think I would if I wasn't tainted from my WPF for Vista (Honestly, terrible) project a few years ago.
For other options past those two, all I can think is to hack up the famous Bjarne Stroustrup quote; there's two classes of tools - the ones people complain about, and the ones no one uses.
Let us know what you decide on, good luck!
Thanks Marc, looks like no one here likes .net core 😁 (I haven't tried it to be honest)
Awk.. its fine everyone loves to beat on everything MS-related,
Also if performance is the deciding factor it's going to be hard to avoid native!