Qml.Net vs XWT

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Qml.Net		XWT
	Project
10	Mentions	2
1,362	Stars	1,351
0.7%	Growth	0.1%
0.0	Activity	3.8
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
C#	Language	C#
MIT License	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.

Qml.Net

Posts with mentions or reviews of Qml.Net. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-27.

Developing C# GUI Apps on Ubuntu
1 project | /r/csharp | 17 Jun 2022

Or QML.Net
Writing a GUI app on Linux, for Linux
3 projects | /r/csharp | 27 Jan 2022

QML.Net seems to be the best of the bunch for this right now.
UI Wrapper for commands?
4 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 16 Jan 2022

It looks like there are actually qml bindings for mono but not sure how active they are developed...still probably the closest you get if you want to stuck with .net
Writing UI touch screen applications on Raspberry/Linux with C#?
3 projects | /r/csharp | 19 Nov 2021

You might try QML.Net. That's a Qt library for C#, which (in theory) should play nice with LXDE in Raspbian. In theory. YMMV.
QT and C#?
1 project | /r/csharp | 18 Oct 2021

BLUF: Does anyone have some experience with qmlnet?
GUI with C# on a Pi4
2 projects | /r/csharp | 27 Sep 2021

Instead, write your project as if you're targeting Linux. If you need a GUI, use QML.Net. It's a C# binding for QT. To access USB, try LibUsbDotNet.
Migration from WinForms: Recommended Microsoft-supported destination?
3 projects | /r/csharp | 11 Aug 2021

Since you're specifically looking for a replacement for a desktop UI framework, I would look into QML.Net. It works across Windows and Linux (and even MacOS X) by using the Qt framework under the hood.
GUI in C# while using Linux (.NET Core)
7 projects | /r/csharp | 13 Jun 2021

And there's Qml.Net if qml/qt is more what you want.
Best cross-platform desktop UI framework?
1 project | /r/csharp | 29 Dec 2020

XWT

Posts with mentions or reviews of XWT. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-29.

Cross platform gui frameworks that aren't xaml-based?
14 projects | /r/dotnet | 29 Jan 2022

Xwt - https://github.com/mono/xwt and there GtkSharp branch https://github.com/lytico/xwt/tree/lytico_gtksharp Eto - https://github.com/picoe/Eto
Preparing a large Winforms/GDI+ C# app to support multi-platform
1 project | /r/dotnet | 24 Dec 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Qml.Net and XWT you can also consider the following projects:

Avalonia - Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET Foundation community project.

Eto.Forms - Cross platform GUI framework for desktop and mobile applications in .NET

QtSharp - Mono/.NET bindings for Qt

Gtk# - Gtk# is a Mono/.NET binding to the cross platform Gtk+ GUI toolkit and the foundation of most GUI apps built with Mono

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

Modern UI for WPF - MUI - Modern UI for WPF

ObjectListView - git clone of https://objectlistview.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/objectlistview/cs/trunk

Xamarin.Forms - Xamarin.Forms Official Home

AdonisUI - Lightweight UI toolkit for WPF applications offering classic but enhanced windows visuals

WinApi - A simple, direct, ultra-thin CLR library for high-performance Win32 Native Interop