gir.core vs Xamarin.SwiftUI

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gir.core		Xamarin.SwiftUI
	Project
11	Mentions	1
261	Stars	95
6.1%	Growth	-
8.8	Activity	0.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

gir.core

Posts with mentions or reviews of gir.core. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.

Vala Programming Language
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Apr 2024

Go is notoriously difficult to use in a scenario like this, especially when bindings to C# in the form of https://github.com/gircore/gir.core exist (overhead of calling which is very low by nature of interop being a first-class feature since .NET's inception).
Gir.Core – a C# library for writing GTK(GObject)-based applications
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2024
Choose Font with GTK4 and .NET 8
1 project | dev.to | 25 Jan 2024

Gir.Core Gtk-4.0 Samples
Counter App with GTK4 and .NET 8
1 project | dev.to | 18 Jan 2024

Gir.Core
Inkscape (vector graphics editor) is hiring: Accelerating the GTK4 migration
3 projects | /r/linux | 20 Apr 2023

And it doesn't even include all the bindings: The recent gir.core is missing or GTK server.
is Plasma written in C++ or QML, or both?
2 projects | /r/kde | 20 Feb 2023

In C# you would implement GUI apps with MVVM using XAML, WinUI or https://github.com/gircore/gir.core
Is it possible to write libadwaita apps using C#?
2 projects | /r/gnome | 17 Feb 2023

It is! The library you’ll want to use is gir.core.
Gir.Core: C# binding generator for GObject
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Sep 2022
.NET 6 is now in Ubuntu 22.04
1 project | /r/linux | 16 Aug 2022

gir.core is early in development and would allow you to develop GTK applications (or rather anything to do with GObject) although im not sure how much you can do with it currently.
Looking for some project to contribute.
9 projects | /r/dotnet | 4 May 2021

Gir.core could use a hand. https://github.com/gircore/gir.core

Xamarin.SwiftUI

Posts with mentions or reviews of Xamarin.SwiftUI. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-04.

Looking for some project to contribute.
9 projects | /r/dotnet | 4 May 2021

If you have a Mac, we could use some help on SwiftUI bindings for .NET: https://github.com/chkn/Xamarin.SwiftUI

What are some alternatives?

When comparing gir.core and Xamarin.SwiftUI you can also consider the following projects:

FrEee - An open source clone of the classic 4X game Space Empires IV.

DuckDB.NET - Bindings and ADO.NET Provider for DuckDB

GtkSharp - .NET wrapper for Gtk and other related libraries

EasyData - Adaptive CRUD for ASP.NET Core. With EasyData you can get both API endpoints and client-side UI for all CRUD operations in a matter of minutes using just your DbContext and a few lines of code.

EverythingToolbar - Everything integration for the Windows taskbar. [Moved to: https://github.com/srwi/EverythingToolbar]

Silk.NET - The high-speed OpenGL, OpenCL, OpenAL, OpenXR, GLFW, SDL, Vulkan, Assimp, WebGPU, and DirectX bindings library your mother warned you about.

GraphQLinq - LINQ to GraphQL - Strongly typed GraphQL queries with LINQ query syntax. No more magic strings and runtime errors.

EverythingToolbar - Everything integration for the Windows taskbar.