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It would be nice if Microsoft would enable a type of language server scheme, like they use for VS Code, to allow Electron apps to use any backside language rather than depending on Node. Would be handy to have a cross-platform app where the UI is HTML/CSS/JS but the core logic was in Go or Ruby or C# or (insert language here).

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There are alternatives that might work to such an effect.

Tauri comes to mind: frontend using html/css/js but backend is in Rust.

Then there is Blazor: C# in the browser. With Blazorserver, you could actually do both core logic and ui with Dotnet. Stick a webview or minimal electron app in front of it (something like Tauri backend might work too now that I think about it) and you could theoretically fake a native experience while in truth you are actually calling an url: just like electron kinda does. Early cross platform phone app frameworks (Ionic) did this exact thing.

If most the common GUI idioms are built into a good GUI standard (see below), then it wouldn't need tons of client-side coding, and thus JS would probably suffice for lite-duty stuff.

There are some technologies like this. I'm going to look into Wails: https://github.com/wailsapp/wails

Electron.net gives you just that. All the backend logic is in C#.

It's not the most well maintained project, but once you have it up and running for a new project it's stable.

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