Sciter VS Xamarin

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Sciter mentions (67)

• Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>

  > wondering if css and svg could be used as abstraction over graphics and UI libraries There's another project called Sciter that uses CSS to target native graphics libraries: https://sciter.com > I wonder how hard it was to implement css. I've heard it can be pretty complex. It was hard, but the biggest barrier is the obscurity of the knowledge. Text layout is the hardest, because working with glyphs and... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Bringing Back Horizontal Rules in HTML Select Elements

  [2] https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/select-variants.png. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Immediate Mode GUI Programming

  Otherwise, if we have only retained mode as in browsers, we will need to modify the DOM heavily and create temporary elements for handles. [1] https://sciter.com. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Servo announces grant from the NLnet Foundation

  An embedded engine is also a much faster path to viable use cases. For example Sciter [1] has some degree of success despite implementing only a sane subset of the DOM API. It doesn't work well for general internet surfing, but when used as an UI library you just avoid the parts that don't work. 1: https://sciter.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Rusty revenant Servo returns to render once more

  I've still never used it but I've long been curious about Sciter: https://sciter.com. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Xamarin mentions (26)

• Making an android app with c#

  Xamarin - Basically an older version of MAUI. I would advise against creating new projects on Xamarin since MAUI is supposed to render it obsolete. Source: over 1 year ago

• App developer

  Microsoft Xamarin: For this you'll need to know C# and .net. Source: over 1 year ago

• I own a web development company in San Antonio and I'm looking for ideas to support the UTSA students with some sort of free courses or classes

  At my internship, we moved to Microsoft's Visual Studio for C# development from Java, and for application development we use Xamarin which can be used on Windows and Mac. Source: over 1 year ago

• Where to begin with idea?

  Of course, Unity is better with games. So, alternatives include MAUI, which is the new hip thing that Microsoft wants people to switch to. There is also WPF, WinForms, UWP, and Xamarin, which are compared nicely in this Reddit thread. Source: over 1 year ago

• React Native vs Flutter

  A bit later, Microsoft made their answer in the form of Xamarin, which got a lot of popularity. Xamarin is an open-source mobile app development platform later incorporated into Visual Studio. Xamarin allowed you to use C# to write business logic. Instead of HTML and CSS, it offered its markup language, XAML, which maps to the visual elements of the corresponding operating system. These were already much more... - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago