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  • dan@upvote.au
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    1 month ago

    This makes sense! You get the same advantage if the app uses Go or C# though, and both of those can compile to a single statically-linked executable too.

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      30 days ago

      If it’s written in C# that’s a huge turn-off though because that means it’s likely to only run on Windows.

      I mean, in theory, it could run on Linux but that’s a very rare situation. Almost everything ever written in C# uses Windows-specific APIs and basically no one installs the C# runtime on Linux anymore. It’s both enormous and a pain in the ass to get working properly for any given C# project.

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        30 days ago

        That’s a very old way of thinking of things. C# has been cross platform for a long time.

        Almost everything ever written in C# uses Windows-specific APIs

        Not really. Most C# apps use .NET (since the framework and standard library is quite feature-rich) rather than direct Win32 calls, and .NET is cross-platform. A lot of web services are written in C# and deployed to Linux servers.

        basically no one installs the C# runtime on Linux anymore

        You can compile a C# app to a single executable that doesn’t require the framework to be installed.

        Are you running Jellyfin, the *arr suite, slskd, or Technitium DNS? They’re all written in C#.

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          30 days ago

          You’ve obviously never tried to get any given .NET project working in Linux. There’s .NET and then there’s .NET Core which is a mere subset of .NET.

          Only .NET Core runs on Linux and nobody uses it. The list of .NET stuff that will actually run on .NET Core (alone) is a barren wasteland.