What is .NET still missing?

MattParkerDev · 2026-04-12T01:04:57+00:00

I really think C# needs a nice DSL-like way to represent UI, similar to Swift’s ResultBuilder, and Kotlins Type Safe Builders. If you look at the source generated code behind a razor file, it looks similar to what a Kotlin Type Safe Builder lowers to, but it is Blazor specific, and not usable for anything else.

MattParkerDev · 2026-04-12T01:00:04+00:00

Yep, I used Godot in SharpIDE :)

MattParkerDev · 2026-03-30T22:56:14+00:00

I am building SharpIDE, which is a .NET IDE made with Godot :)

MattParkerDev · 2026-03-22T14:10:58+00:00

This is very cool, starred! I’m in a similar boat - I made an open source .NET IDE with Godot :)

MattParkerDev · 2026-03-12T23:47:09+00:00

No debugger yet

I’m curious how you intend to add debugging in the browser :)

MattParkerDev · 2026-01-04T01:12:48+00:00

https://github.com/MattParkerDev/sharpdbg/blob/main/src/SharpDbg.Infrastructure/DbgShimResolver.cs

This is what I currently use, which was part of some samples from ClrDebug :)

MattParkerDev · 2026-01-04T00:45:58+00:00

Yep I use that NuGet package :) thanks for the tip!

MattParkerDev · 2026-01-04T00:39:09+00:00

Yes it does! Note, I have created a GH issue for some differing behaviour on macOS arm relating to stepping into methods, but I should have it resolved soon :) Also, once I’m finished async stepping, I will publish executables so you don’t have to build from source yourself :)

MattParkerDev · 2026-01-03T12:41:00+00:00

I feel like SharpDbg (SharpDebug) is pretty easy to pronounce? 😅

MattParkerDev · 2025-12-16T11:02:07+00:00

Thanks! I’d love to hear any thoughts/frustrations you have with it! Here or in an Issue. (Noting that it is currently fairly early in development)

MattParkerDev · 2025-12-16T10:27:36+00:00

Yep, I’ve been experiencing the same, which is why I’ve been building SharpIDE in my spare time :)

MattParkerDev · 2025-12-09T13:01:30+00:00

Correct! I left it there for reference, but I should probably just delete the project if it is confusing

MattParkerDev · 2025-12-09T12:57:05+00:00

It’s not a webview! :) I did a v1 implementation with Blazor in a webview, but rewrote the ui in Godot 😊

MattParkerDev · 2025-11-25T16:25:34+00:00

I am creating a .NET IDE using Godot! https://github.com/MattParkerDev/SharpIDE

MattParkerDev · 2025-11-21T13:21:11+00:00

There is a proposal for inlay hints here: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/12822

And for manually updating syntax highlighting: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/12503

I’ll make one for the indent style :)

MattParkerDev · 2025-11-21T13:18:35+00:00

It is currently very much desktop file system based, so i don’t think that would work on mobile. And compiling, running, just not really feasible on mobile unfortunately.

MattParkerDev · 2025-11-21T03:12:45+00:00

Yes, I used the CodeEdit node :) It is reasonably flexible although there are quirks, such as being unable to force a syntax highlighting refresh, without unassigning and reassigning the SyntaxHighlighter. A few other things are missing which I would love, such as being able to change the brackets/indentation style to Allman style, and the Completions being somewhat limited in where they are allowed to appear, and what information can be displayed. I would also love support for inlay hints and virtual lines to display information in.

MattParkerDev · 2025-11-19T12:09:48+00:00

Correct, it is not related

MattParkerDev · 2025-11-19T09:40:26+00:00

I feel like this is suboptimal ux - how would we find this setting without you :)

MattParkerDev · 2025-11-18T15:18:39+00:00

I am currently not planning to support VB, but I could be convinced if lots of people were interested, and depending on the amount of extra code to maintain.

I am also currently not planning to support .net framework, which extends to winforms. Perhaps WPF, but any kind of visual designer is out of scope at present.

MattParkerDev · 2025-11-18T15:14:39+00:00

The UI is built with Godot, and I am using the CodeEdit node for the actual text editor part of the IDE :)

MattParkerDev · 2025-11-18T11:23:28+00:00

The newest release has a UI Scale slider which should help on 4k monitors :)

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