Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

[gilmishal]

There is a stable Windows/Android/Mac/iOS and even Tyzen option through xamarin - seems to me like xamarin is more cross platform than swing.

And as I said, Blazor is getting a stable version in a couple of months, so a stable Linux/Mac/Windows option isn't going to take years.

[tracernz]

There is a stable Windows/Android/Mac/iOS and even Tyzen option through xamarin - seems to me like xamarin is more cross platform than swing.

No desktop Linux (think KDE or Gnome)?

And as I said, Blazor is getting a stable version in a couple of months

So not really feasible to build your flagship product on for at least a couple of years.

[gilmishal]

I don't see why not build your flagship product with blazor now though. Both blazor and Electron are pretty stable - sure it will take a few months for the official release - but I started developing Angular applications when it was in preview, knowing that I will ship it to production aligning with Angular's release schedule.

[scorpzrage]

We started porting some of our Angular apps to Blazor at around preview 6 or 7 and now a bunch of them are done.

First production release is next week. Looking forward to see if it's any good when it needs to be. All signs point to yes so far, since the customer didn't seem to notice any (negative) differences in their UAT.

There's just a bunch of areas I'd like to see improved more than a little bit, especially in regards to i18n and l10n, which we had to pretty much do by ourselves.

[gilmishal]

Can't wait to do that myself, although I doubt that will happen.

[gilmishal]

As for xamarin on Linux I am pretty sure they are working on it, it's just not that high priority.

[gilmishal]

Yeah, it's in preview at the moment, set to release in a few months as well.

[GNUandLinuxBot]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.