Avalonia Reviews and Details

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• Saying Goodbye to Asm.js

  > I like WASM and I want to like WASM but the rate of maturity within the ecosystem is incredibly abysmal. The C# toolchain for WebAssembly is pretty good. You can do a lot with Avalonia and Uno: https://avaloniaui.net/ https://platform.uno/ Here's a C# clone of Visual Basic compiled to WebAssembly: https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Porting a SwiftUI App to Avalonia: How does Cross-Platform .NET hold up

  So when I set out to ship Ditto Edge Studio — our debug and query tool for the Ditto edge database — I needed it to run on Windows, Linux, and macOS. On the Mac I already had a polished SwiftUI build. For everyone else, I turned to Avalonia. This post is about what I learned bringing the two into the same family, specifically around two features that had no business being easy to port:. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Microsoft Hasn't Had a Coherent GUI Strategy Since Petzold

  I would bet in Avalonia UI. It's like WPF but cross-platform. https://avaloniaui.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Windows native app development is a mess

  But there are libraries that do that, e.g. https://avaloniaui.net. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Windows native app development is a mess

  Because I didnt see it already mentioned. Avalonia[1] and Uno[2] for C# are also really great if you want to write windows apps. I wrote some in Avalonia that worked incredible nice on Linux and Windows. You dont have to use MVVM or AXML for example Uno allows for C# Markup[3] to be used instead or MVUX instead of MVVM. I personally hate MVVM and AXML but you are not forced to use them. For Avalonia I dabbled in... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• I Hate: Programming Wayland Applications

  Probably best off using a UI library like Avalonia: https://avaloniaui.net/ It satisfies the requirement to "make easy things easy, make hard things doable" and it also gets you cross platform support. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Swift is a more convenient Rust

  There actually is a great GUI story also for Linux today enabled by the excellent Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Wine 11.0

  It is. But if you mean .NET WinForms then you don't really need Wine because Wine uses Mono to run .NET executables. If using WPF then you should check out Avalonia UI [1] which is a cross-platform alternative that is also probably better (and has good tooling in VS). There's also .NET MAUI [2] but it's maybe not as good for desktop apps. [1] https://avaloniaui.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• The .NET Cross-Platform Showdown: MAUI vs Uno vs Avalonia (And Why Avalonia Won)

  If you're building cross-platform .NET applications, give Avalonia a serious look. It's what MAUI should have been. - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago

• Svelte Is That Fast

  > All that instead of making WPF crossplatform. Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net/) and Uno (https://platform.uno/) are cross platform UI frameworks for .NET. Both work in the browser with WebAssembly. Avalonia renders to canvas. Uno can render to canvas or the DOM. Here are a couple of Avalonia demos: https://solitaire.xaml.live/ https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• What .NET 10 GC Changes Mean for Developers

  I would personally prefer Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net/) over MAUI. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Ask HN: Why aren't more startups using C#?

  Also, for desktop development, I would recommend the excellent Avalonia: https://avaloniaui.net/. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago

• Most (ly Dead) Influential Programming Languages (2020)

  C# with Avalonia is pretty good for cross platform development: https://avaloniaui.net/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Why don't browsers load websites directly in WASM?

  Avalonia is an example: https://avaloniaui.net/ Here are a couple of Avalonia WebAssembly demos: - https://solitaire.xaml.live/ - https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/ Uno is a similar idea: https://platform.uno/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Why don't browsers load websites directly in WASM?

  > Maybe not for regular documents, but for apps/games/tools where you want full control, performance, and custom UI rendering without relying on the traditional web stack Avalonia is an example: https://avaloniaui.net/ Here are a couple of Avalonia WebAssembly demos: - https://solitaire.xaml.live/ - https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• The History and Legacy of Visual Basic

  Check out https://avaloniaui.net as well. It's basically a cross-platform reimplementation of WPF. It's not quite as simple as C#+WinForms or Lazarus+LCL because you don't get drag-and-drop UI designer, and you need to write markup by hand (albeit with live preview). But unlike HTML, it's actually designed for desktop UI apps from the get go, so it's much easier to write for anything non-trivial. And you can still... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: Meld RDP – A Fast, Portable Remote Desktop Manager (.rdp)

  - It's built with https://avaloniaui.net/ so it may be possible to get it working on Linux, though I have little experience there. Would love to hear any feedback, ideas, or feature suggestions! Thanks for checking it out! https://github.com/meld-cp/MeldRDP. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• WASM Wayland Web (WWW)

  > The web had this before briefly. Back in the 90s and 00s, some people just wanted to use Flash. WebAssembly is different. WebAssembly brings every language to the web. Flash didn't. WebAssembly can render to canvas and enable applications that compile to desktop, mobile, and the web. UI libraries like Avalonia do this: https://avaloniaui.net/ For example, here's C# implementation of Visual Basic 6... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations

  That's why I mentioned https://avaloniaui.net/ which does the part. WPF is not bad compared to everything happening in the web frameworks. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Compiling Java into Native Binaries with Graal and Mill

  I don't know why anyone even uses the GUI frameworks from Microsoft these days. WinForms is only good if you need to throw something together quick. Everything else should be Avalonia (https://avaloniaui.net/). Cross platform and does support AOT. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Why Tracebit is written in C#

  MS UI has been a mess for years. They just can't pick a paradigm to run with apparently, so people just fall back to good ole' Winforms. That being said, check out Avalonia: https://avaloniaui.net/ and https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia Cross-platform, open source, MVVM & reactive. A breath of fresh air. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago