Would C# be a better language if WinForms were not in the standard library? Would Rust be a better language if GTK+ were in the standard library? If the answers to these questions are different, why?
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Replying to @pcwalton
ah yes the extremely reasonable comparison of a third party language to a first party language developed as the official interface for an OS (which some people still try to use outside that context)
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Replying to @Gankra_
It was an honest question! No need to be snarky. I don’t know the answer myself. And that’s a good point! The fact that C# was historically Windows-only, and developed by Microsoft, makes a big difference.
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Replying to @pcwalton
swift is completely analagous to c# in this regard if you want to do a fair comparison (swift has a core/foundation split for libs to not be strictly apple-only, but a lot of basic functionality is in foundation...) for rust you want java AWT or something
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but yeah sorry your post literally came off as trolling to me because this difference is kinda everything (and also the idea of rust randomly shipping the gui toolkit for *half* the ecosystem of an irrelevant platform is just really funny lol)
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Yeah, I was thinking of WinForms as its de facto status as a minimal cross-platform UI layer as it exists in Mono, not the way it was originally designed as Win32-only.
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