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Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The future of .NET UI

79 mentions on Hacker News by 62 people: 11 stories, 68 comments · first 2014-09-08 · latest 2025-07-30

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  1. …and engines) https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/bitwarden/server https://github.com/unoplatform/uno…
    comment by zigzag312 · 2025-07-30 · in .NET 10 Preview 6 brings JIT improvements, one-shot tool execution
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    A Significant Sponsorship to Drive Our Open-Source Roadmap
    story by hiena03 · 2025-06-24 · 1 comment
  3. Avalonia left the .NET Foundation a year ago. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/14666
    comment by Mountain_Skies · 2025-04-19 · in Open Core and the .NET Foundation: Time for Some Introspection?
  4. …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.
    comment by caspper69 · 2025-02-01 · in Why Tracebit is written in C#
  5. They seem to be using this framework: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia Avalonia aims at compatibility with Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) XAML. The web platform is explicitly supported: https://avaloniaui.net/platforms#wasm .…
    comment by af78 · 2024-11-11 · in Visual Basic 6 rebuilt in C# – complete with form designer and IDE in browser
  6. …it directly. For example, Avalonia implemented Vulkan back-end some time ago, no C or C++ required: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/pull/12737 Even then, you are absolutely not married to any of these GUI frameworks, but if are…
    comment by neonsunset · 2024-08-10 · in Ladybird browser to start using Swift language this fall
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    Farewell to the .NET Foundation
    story by magneto2024 · 2024-02-21 · 0 comments
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    Avalonia – Farewell to the .NET Foundation
    story by pjmlp · 2024-02-20 · 1 comment
  9. …results hopefully. Others found high CPU usage too, but not as high as 70% (more like half that). https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/11070
    comment by zogrodea · 2024-02-04 · in AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
  10. …platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases. See my comment [2] [1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128
    comment by sltr · 2024-02-04 · in AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
  11. …always introduce a new item in the undo/redo history [0] which isn't how native textboxes work. [0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/blob/942901c624df73b7...
    comment by zogrodea · 2024-02-04 · in AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
  12. …Skia to WASM is you'll lose any benefits of hardware graphics acceleration on the device." (From https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/discussions/6831#disc... )
    comment by fxtentacle · 2024-01-08 · in Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?
  13. …have known working templates with it, but YMMV. [0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ [1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just <PublishAot>true</PublishAot> in csproj - it is…
    comment by neonsunset · 2023-11-14 · in .NET 8
  14. Showcase of apps built with avalonia: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia#showcase Saw this update for Avalonia that I wanted to share, since the prospects of the new features are exciting. I've made a couple of small-medium GUIs using…
    comment by banashark · 2022-08-20
  15. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by grokys · 2022-03-12 · in .NET Myths Dispelled
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    Show HN: Avalonia UI framework for .NET now runs everywhere using WebAssembly
    story by wiso · 2021-11-29 · 0 comments
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    Avalonia: A cross-platform XAML-based UI framework
    story by hdjjhhvvhga · 2021-11-08 · 0 comments
  18. …ILSpy that .NET devs often use. The community answer, the last time I checked, was AvaloniaUI ( https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia ) which is cross platform port of WPF (at least XAML based). ILSpy is already ported to it (…
    comment by 0xmarcin · 2021-09-25 · in Paint.NET 4.3 is now available
  19. Lately I've been using AvaloniaUI ( https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia ) for all new projects. For most intents and purposes it is much easier to make single UI codebase work across platforms when behavior and look of components does…
    comment by lostmsu · 2021-04-21 · in .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI
  20. Avalonia to the rescue: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by cbHXBY1D · 2021-04-21 · in .NET MAUI: .NET Multi-Platform App UI
  21. …but not Linux and MacOS natively Links: - https://github.com/unoplatform/uno/issues/17 - https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues/587
    comment by octopoc · 2020-11-05 · in Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux
  22. check https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by ZeroClickOk · 2020-09-23 · in .NET 5.0 – New APIs
  23. > Microsoft still lacks a cross-platform desktop UI framework Avalonia to the rescue: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by ZeroClickOk · 2020-09-22 · in .NET 5.0 – New APIs
  24. there’s already Avalonia UI. (with FuncUI it also works great with F#) https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/AvaloniaCommunity/Avalonia.FuncUI
    comment by JaggerJo · 2020-07-08 · in Ask HN: Alternative to Go
  25. FuncUI is build on top of https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia , a cross platform GUI framework for .Net core. It currently works on Windows (supports ARM), MacOS, Linux (supports ARM) and backends for Android and iOS are in the works.
    comment by JaggerJo · 2020-07-05 · in Show HN: Cross Platform MVU Apps with F#
  26. …did. He decided to rewrite his app in C# and AvaloniaUI for Windows/Linux cross platform support. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia > that they have a clear history to do major breaking changes at each major release This is a major…
    comment by csdreamer7 · 2020-05-27 · in What's New with Qt for Android
  27. Avalonia? ( https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia )
    comment by moonchild · 2020-04-04 · in Windows 10 Hosted App Model
  28. …XAML and standardized it for other languages? Pretty sure it's generic enough. Look at Avalonia: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia Seems they wanna spec it out: https://github.com/microsoft/xaml-standard
    comment by giancarlostoro · 2020-03-13 · in Silverlight Shouldn't Come Back to Life
  29. …with .NET Core and Avalonia [0] as another option, though that would require you learning C#. [0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by jetti · 2020-02-10 · in Ask HN: Java, C, C++, or Python for cross-platform GUI and tools?
  30. Avalonia UI, while still in Beta, is pretty mature. It's not WPF, of course, but it works quite well: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by MrGilbert · 2019-10-29 · in A GUI framework for C# console applications
  31. We're trying to do that over at https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia if you're interested. Doesn't have MS (or any other company's) backing, and is still in beta, but quite usable for creating x-plat apps. You can see some projects built…
    comment by grokys · 2019-09-23 · in .NET Core 3.0
  32. Uno [1] and Avalonia [2]? [1]: https://platform.uno/ [2]: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by vimslayer · 2019-09-23 · in Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application
  33. FYI: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/blob/master/src/Linux...
    comment by kekekeks · 2019-09-16 · in The Raspberry Beer’o’meter
  34. I wish someone would implement a bare metal DRM/KMS/GLES backend for https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia , e.g. based on NanoVG C library for vector graphics and fonts. .NET core runs way faster than JavaScript in browsers, and C# is…
    comment by Const-me · 2019-09-15 · in The Raspberry Beer’o’meter
  35. …There's [1] Avalonia, which is a 3rd party system, but nothing developed by Microsoft... [1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by gitgud · 2019-07-07 · in The Evolving Infrastructure of .NET Core
  36. You want Avalonia for that: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by alimbada · 2019-05-23 · in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) on GitHub
  37. …I've also seen Avalonia, which is a more .NET-focused approach, meant to be very similar to WPF: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia But the main issue for me is that Microsoft just needs to pick something, and say "this is how to write…
    comment by ocdtrekkie · 2019-05-06 · in .NET 5
  38. …are cross platform GUIs for .Net. https://www.hanselman.com/blog/CrossplatformGUIsWithOpenSour... https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/blob/master/readme.md Yeah they probably suck and don’t look are behave like native apps - but no…
    comment by scarface74 · 2019-05-04 · in Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE
  39. …Rant: Why does every cross-platform framework target GTK on Linux rather than Qt? [1] [1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by cpburns2009 · 2019-01-04 · in Start with a Website, Not a Mobile App
  40. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by int_19h · 2018-12-04 · in Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
  41. Not WPF per se, but if you're looking for something similar check out https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by Nelkins · 2018-11-05 · in .NET Standard 2.1
  42. …read my own link closely enough. I guess Avalonia is the only option for cross platform .NET UI? https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by avinium · 2018-11-03 · in ASP.NET Core 3.0 will only run on .NET Core
  43. …would talk to create a Runtime or Rendering Engine to normalize UI/UX on differents platforms. [0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by hashrate · 2018-09-14 · in Kotlin Multiplatform for Android and iOS
  44. …https://github.com/Prolucid/Elmish.WPF https://github.com/GtkSharp/GtkSharp https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/xamarin/xamarin-macios
    comment by Nelkins · 2018-06-28 · in State of Multicore OCaml [pdf]
  45. …alternative for cross plat guis if you don't want to pull in non-.net stuff like qt or electron. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia So yeah.
    comment by efskap · 2018-06-04 · in Microsoft acquires Github
  46. > I think that .NET Core have a stable UI kit. It does, Avalonia: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia It looks like a pretty promising project. There was another one I believe I saw on HN a while ago but I can't seem to find it.
    comment by neilsimp1 · 2018-04-26 · in So, if not Electron apps, then what?
  47. Since you're doing .NET have you looked at https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia for cross platform UIs? I haven't messed with it, but it just hit beta and I was hoping for some insights.
    comment by skrowl · 2018-02-22 · in Electron 2.0.0 beta
  48. It's used as one of the backends for Avalonia UI https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/blob/master/readme.md (Not affiliated but I love this project. If it wasn't still alpha I'd use it for absolutely everything)
    comment by barbersturgeon · 2018-01-15 · in Skia: an open source 2D graphics library
  49. Check out https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by Nelkins · 2018-01-15 · in Rust in 2018: easier to use
  50. …from working on .NET Core. They might need some work to support it but its entirely possible. https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
    comment by Rohansi · 2017-11-13 · in Mono's New .NET Interpreter