Electron-like .NET Core shell for Blazor WebAssembly (vs WebView).

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While the WebView discussion is certainly interesting, some of us would rather prefer a full-featured Electron-like shell that would be Node.js-free and .NET Core-based. I believe many of us would be fine with bundling a platform-specific Chromium rendering runtime (same as Electron does) for predictable consistency and stability of our Desktop apps.

I.e., it would be a direct replacement of what Electron is but with .NET Core hosted in the Main process and Blazor WebAseembly in the Renderer process. The interop between the two could be done via something like Electron's custom protocol handlers or something like Edge's ICoreWebView2.

IMO, currently Chromely project comes close to that, but it lacks proper corporate backing and endorsement (something that Electron has).

A while ago I posted a related rant on Reddit, "Mixing Electron and .NET Core in a multi-process desktop application", where I attempted to go through all existing options that try to marry Electron and .NET together.