News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework.

Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by j_s on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:10AM (#14410106)
Apparently this is a hot topic.

The options I'm aware of are:

https://github.com/picoe/Eto (OP - BSD)

https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia (MIT)

Currently only with a preview for Mac, Xamarin.Forms is roadmapped for desktop platforms "Q3 2017": https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/

Licensing for Xamarin Forms was funky for a while (required paying for Xamarin prior to MS acquisition) but appears to be MIT now.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by johnhattan on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:39AM (#14410330)
And for games, there's MonoGame.

http://www.monogame.net/

It's based on the old XNA framework. At least one successful commercial game (Fez) was written with it.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by pjmlp on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @12:27PM (#14411205)
Quite a few successful games were written in it, before Unity changed their license model.

Bastion was another one that comes to my mind.

As additional remark, indies have been doing games in C# since the Managed DirectX days.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by zerr on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @03:44PM (#14412877)
Also, Unity is more a tool for designers, while MonoGame or LibGDX are more coding oriented libraries.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by pjmlp on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:14PM (#14413089)
Kind of agree, but if you look at the curriculum of universities teaching game development degrees, they have all moved into Unity/Unreal, plus the console SDKs.

Also the love they are getting from MS and Google for VR/AR.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by geniium on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:10AM (#14410555)
This is a hot topic? Not so sure.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by j_s on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @11:25AM (#14410683)
Either that or someone figured out how to beat HN's vote ring detections to hit #4+ on HN for 2 hours, no?

http://hnrankings.info/14409553/

[ Parent | on HN ]