Ask HN: Best stack for cross-platform desktop app?

• tauri

  495 86,165 9.9 Rust

  Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.

  

• CodeRabbit

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• Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI)

  274 22,282 10.0 C#

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

  

  Try some options from dotnet world

  Https//avaloniaui.net

  https://github.com/dotnet/maui

• Flutter

  1,240 167,001 10.0 Dart

  Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond

  

  Flutter is an option as well. https://flutter.dev

  With the release of Flutter 2.0, desktop support is now fully available. Windows, Linux, and MacOS. This on top of the existing iOS and Android support. Web was also officially released.

• react-native-windows

  71 16,477 9.6 C++

  A framework for building native Windows apps with React.

  

  https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/

  Does anyone have experience on the same ?

• awesome-nwjs

  1 93 0.0

  Awesome NW.js (node-webkit)

  

  I am using NWJS to build cross platform apps using web technologies. I used that because of it is simple, easy and can protect source code.

  https://github.com/nw-cn/awesome-nwjs

• wxWidgets

  52 6,225 9.9 C++

  Cross-Platform C++ GUI Library

  

  WxWidgets[0] and Ultimate++[1] are the two. Poco[2] libs are available as well. And for Web frontend there is Wt[3]

  [0] https://www.wxwidgets.org

• Wt

  41 1,710 9.2 C

  Wt, C++ Web Toolkit

  

• SaaSHub

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• POCO

  15 8,492 9.4 C++

  The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.

  

• Uno Platform

  145 9,097 10.0 C#

  Open-source platform for building cross-platform native Mobile, Web, Desktop and Embedded apps quickly. Create rich, C#/XAML, single-codebase apps from any IDE. Hot Reload included! 90m+ NuGet Downloads!!

  

  I'd go with C# + Uno (https://platform.uno/).

  Disclaimer: I haven't used Uno before, but from their presentations and what i've seen online, they are top-notch. I plan to test them in the mid-term future.

• Avalonia

  272 26,276 9.8 C#

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

  

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