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   「 Coolest Fristi 」 (fristi@56k.dile-up.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 18:29:27 JST 「 Coolest Fristi 」
   that reminds me, I wanna get into C# again but I'm really wondering how good of an idea that is for making linux software
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 18:29:25 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @fristi Personally I would highly disrecommend it, almost nothing Linux and libre uses C#, even video games where it's frequently used.
     Gnome and related pretty much dropped the apps that used it 5~10 years ago, and they're part of the reason for Mono getting more serious adoption over dotGNU.
     
     See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_software_programmed_in_C_Sharp lot of abandoned projects or otherwise rewritten in other languages.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 18:46:11 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @fristi Mostly C, C++ and Python.
     Sometimes Vala (gnome's own language), bits of Rust in very recent ones, sometimes Java.
     
     After all those either have toolkits directly for the language or have more or less official bindings and so decent documentation.
     Using FFIs being quite a nightmare otherwise.
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     「 Coolest Fristi 」 (fristi@56k.dile-up.nl)'s status on Tuesday, 03-Dec-2024 18:46:19 JST 「 Coolest Fristi 」

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan so what do most people use to write linux desktop apps? :meowThonkang: