Avalonia
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Avalonia | tauri | |
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254 | 469 | |
23,749 | 77,375 | |
2.8% | 3.0% | |
9.9 | 9.8 | |
3 days ago | 2 days ago | |
C# | Rust | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Avalonia
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Industrial Controller? Windows or Linux?
You might also want to look at AvaloniaUI[0] for a cross platform .NET GUI library. It is similar to WPF but much nicer to work with.
[0] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
- Avalonia – Farewell to the .NET Foundation
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AvaloniaUI: Create Multi-Platform Apps with .NET
Production user here. There's no money gotchas. They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1].
The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other 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
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.NET on Linux: What a Contrast
Yes, but the portable GUI frameworks by Microsoft themselves are generally not very good, and they tend to be abandoned after a couple of years.
Avalonia is developed outside of the Microsoft corporate madness and seems to be slowly becoming the defacto cross-platform framework because it is expected to last a bit longer than a manager's attention span: https://avaloniaui.net/
- Too many Mac apps are being built with Electron
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Ask HN: Do you have a problem you'd pay to have taken away?
Not my comment, but relevant here "The problem with compiling 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... )
- Dezvoltare aplicatie desktop
- Ask HN: How to create web, mobile, and desktop apps from a single code base?
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.NET 8 – .NET Blog
It's a bit of a hit and miss as of today. CLI, back-end and natively compiled libraries (think dll/so/dylib or even .lib/.a - you can statically link NAOT binaries into other "unmanaged" code) work best, GUI - requires more work.
Avalonia[0] and MAUI[1] have known working templates with it, but YMMV.
[0] https://github.com/lixinyang123/AvaloniaAOT / https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/ / honorable mention https://github.com/VincentH-Net/CSharpForMarkup
[1] https://github.com/dotnet/maui (try out with just true in csproj - it is known to work e.g. on iOS)
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One Game, by One Man, on Six Platforms: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For desktop, Avalonia, hands down.
https://avaloniaui.net/
Open source, powered by Skia, backed by JetBrains, and quite battle-tested at this point for small to medium-sized apps. In theory perfectly capable for enterprise as well, since it's basically a spiritual successor to WPF, which has been an industry standard for about 15 years.
They're diving into mobile and WASM well, but that's more of a recent effort and I haven't tested that yet.
tauri
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Tauri CRUD Boilerplate
Hi, dear Tauri! Long time no see. I published my first post, Developing a Desktop Application via Rust and NextJS. The Tauri Way almost a year ago. Since then, Tauri has become stronger. I'm happy about that! And now, I am very pleased to make a useful contribution to the Tauri community. As a full-stack developer, I frequently face situations where I need to start a DB-based UI project as fast as possible. It's stressful if I need to start the project from 100% scratch. I prefer to keep some boilerplates on hand, which will save me time and nerves and will be the subject of this article.
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Show HN: Floro – Visual Version Control for static assets and strings
Hey Thanks!
Just electron & vite. I might actually migrate off electron, Tauri (https://tauri.app/) seems to be getting more stable and it's gotten great reviews.
I think this is the boilerplate I used though https://github.com/cawa-93/vite-electron-builder.
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3D and 2D: Testing out my cross-platform graphics engine
Well the great thing about WebAssembly is that you can port QT or anything else to be at a layer below -- thanks to WebAssembly Interface Types[0] and the Component Model specification that works underneath that.
To over-simplify, the Component Model manages language interop, and WIT constrains the boundaries with interfaces.
IMO the problem here is defining a 90% solution for most window, tab, button, etc management, then building embeddings in QT, Flutter/Skia, and other lower level engines. Getting a good cross-platform way of doing data passing, triggering re-renders, serializing window state is probably the meat of the interesting work.
On top of that, you really need great UX. This is normally where projects fall short -- why should I use this solution instead of something like Tauri[2] which is excellent or Electron?
[0]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...
[1]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/component-model/blob/main/des...
[2]: https://tauri.app/
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Interview with Colin Lienard, Founder of GitLight
Welcome to the 2nd episode of our series “Building with Tauri”, where we chat with developers who build amazing projects and products using Tauri.
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Building W-9 Crafter
Tauri seemed like the "thing" I should switch to because everybody loves Rust (heh), and because it ships significantly smaller apps.
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Tauri + React + ShadcnUI
First of all, I will be using npm as my package manager but feel free to use whatever you prefer. Find more info here.
- Slint 1.5: Embracing Android, Improving Live-Preview, and Pythonic Slint
- Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple
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Tauri - Rust, Js and Native Apps
Today I'm talking about Tauri! Do you know all the various tools that allow you to develop native applications starting from web languages? They often need an intermediate compilation, in the middle of which you end up encountering various problems not always transparent and directly solvable with a language mostly detached from native development. On the other hand, there's still the ease of developing attractive and easily usable interfaces, which are more difficult to develop with low level languages.
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Why Bloat Is Still Software's Biggest Vulnerability
I think Tauri is the most established framework using that approach
https://tauri.app
What are some alternatives?
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neutralinojs - Portable and lightweight cross-platform desktop application development framework
WPF - WPF is a .NET Core UI framework for building Windows desktop applications.
dioxus - Fullstack GUI library for web, desktop, mobile, and more.
Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET
Electron - :electron: Build cross-platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
MahApps.Metro - A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono
iced - A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm