Take a look at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/mobile. It will allow you to write Android apps in C# in Visual Studio. - Source: Hacker News / 11 days ago

> It's not hardware. So now are kernel extensions also “applications”? > VSCode is an app that needs the .NET runtime, in order to run the code you write in e.g. C#. You could not possibly be more wrong. VSCode is written in Typescript. It is an Electron app. There have been cross platform JS frameworks that ran on iOS for a decade. Besides that, it’s been years since you have needed the .Net runtime to run... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

Ah, so C# (and .NET) does have its answer to Qt, point taken. Source: almost 2 years ago

C# can be used for mobile and macOS - https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/xamarin/mobile-apps. Source: over 2 years ago

Iric that’s only possible with Microsoft Xamarin. Never used it, rarely hear about it. Source: almost 3 years ago

I like the first code example on https://crystal-lang.org

    # A very basic HTTP server.

- Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

If you're interested, take a look at Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/)! - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

Obviously as an interpreted language, it's never going to be as fast as something like C, Rust, or Go. Traditionally the ruby maintainers have not designed or optimized for pure speed, but that is changing, and the language is definitely faster these days compared to a decade ago. If you like the ruby syntax/language but want the speed of a compiled language, it's also worth checking out Crystal[^1]. It's mostly... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

Crystal is a nice language that's not only simple to read and write but performs very well too. And the documentation is amazing as well. Source: 7 months ago

Ruby is a super fun scripting language. I much prefer it to python when I need something with a little more "ooomph" than bash. It's just...nice...to write in. Ruby performance has come a long way in the last decade as well. There's libraries for pretty much everything. My modern programming toolkit is basically golang + ruby + bash and I am never left wanting. I do find Crystal (https://crystal-lang.org/) really... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago