GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation

Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by ezst on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:14PM (#44869542)

Re: GUI library situation, are you implying that they finally came up with something that's cross platform? What is it?

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by okanat on Monday August 11, 2025 @06:36PM (#44870253)

There is actually a much better but less well-known open source library in .NET: Avalonia. Look it up their gallery of apps. Avalonia is the cross platform version of Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) libs. It is quite good for desktop apps and many commercial pieces of software uses it.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by jayd16 on Monday August 11, 2025 @05:58PM (#44869929)

MAUI apparently has Windows, Mac and Mobile support but no distro Linux support (unless Wine counts). You could use the web stack to be truly cross platform.

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Re:GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO re... by debugnik on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:46AM (#44875029)

They tried, by forking Xamarin Forms into MAUI, and even then they ignored Linux. It's really rough though, to the point many projects use it as just a glorified webview for Blazor. I expect it to eventually go into a silent maintenance mode along with WinUI 3.

Avalonia is the go-to library for cross-platform UI in .NET right now. But Microsoft's own apps have been switching to web stacks, in a clear case of "Do as I say, not as I do."

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