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This is very exciting, thanks for creating this! I've been hoping for a way to build native apps via web technologies without the bloat.

Please let this be it.

.NET is such a good runtime.

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We're doing it. It's (misleadingly) called server side Blazor. The UI is seamlessly and naturally web, while 95% of the logic is plain old C# running on the plain old core CLR.

Web is only native on browser OSes.

Which on Windows is basically IE11 (not an environment I really want to develop in).

Which isn't what I said, rather OSes that jungle browsers as the only userspace processes available, e.g. FireOS, ChromeOS, KaiOS ....

As for IE11, I don't know of any Window 10 user that still uses it instead of Edge.

Apologies, I meant to state that Windows WebView uses MSHTML which is IE10/11. I see in BETA right now is a Win32 API for WebView2 which uses Edge(Chromium)[0]. Not sure if you edited your comment for clarification or if I replied to the wrong post as my initial comment no longer makes sense.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/hosting/webv...

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