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  • Orleans

    Cloud Native application framework for .NET

  • There were a bunch of new features added to Orleans in the past year, including Live Grain Migration, IAsyncEnumerable support, Cosmos DB & Redis providers.

    I think workflows (durable async/await) are more useful than Reminders v2 alone (in some sense, workflows are Reminders v2), but an enhanced reminders system is likely part of that, as is the new log-structured storage system. The log structured storage issue discusses this: https://github.com/dotnet/orleans/issues/7691. We've been experimenting with a programming model for workflows and intend to share that more broadly soon. Currently, we are planning for .NET 9, so feedback is welcome (best provided via GitHub rather than here). Aspire will make it easier to build and deploy Orleans apps, which is one of the harder points for people getting started with Orleans currently.

  • .NET Runtime

    .NET is a cross-platform runtime for cloud, mobile, desktop, and IoT apps.

  • One reason is that Mono supports a bunch of minor platforms [0] that .NET doesn't - yet (for example, FreeBSD support has an active Github issue [1]... although it's been active for _eight years_).

    If you're running Windows, Mac, or Linux I'm not aware of major reasons to use Mono.

    [0] https://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/supported-platf...

    [1] https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14537

  • InfluxDB

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  • aspire-samples

  • https://github.com/dotnet/aspire-samples/tree/main/samples/A...

  • sdk

    Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI (by dotnet)

  • You're thinking of https://github.com/dotnet/sdk/issues/22247

  • runtimelab

    This repo is for experimentation and exploring new ideas that may or may not make it into the main dotnet/runtime repo.

  • It was tried and the dotnet team decided to drop it: https://github.com/dotnet/runtimelab/issues/2398

  • csharplang

    The official repo for the design of the C# programming language

  • Hi there. I'm the language designer who created the 'Collection Expression' design/specification: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/5354

    You can see the entire history of the proposal there. To answer you specific question, we went with `..` because that's what the language already uses for the complimentary 'pattern matching deconstruction' form for collection patterns.

    In other words, you can already say this today:

        if (x is [var start, .. var middle, .. var end]) { ... }

  • PeachPie

    PeachPie - the PHP compiler and runtime for .NET and .NET Core

  • PeachPie may be worth a look. It’s a php to .net compiler.

    https://www.peachpie.io/

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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  • AvaloniaAOT

    Avalonia Native AOT Templete. Smaller size, lower memory usage and faster startup speed.

  • 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)

  • Avalonia

    Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The most popular .NET UI client technology

  • 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)

  • CSharpForMarkup

    Concise, declarative C# UI markup for .NET browser / native UI frameworks

  • 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)

  • 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.

  • 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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