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Re: Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

#11

Post by badprose »

oblio wrote: post #6

Eto is very interesting but unfortunately there seems to be just 1 (very active) developer behind it, from what I can see. On the other hand, Xamarin.Forms had an announcement recently, an announcement that Hacker News missed. I submitted the news a few days ago but it didn't reach the first page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14383467 -> https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ TL;DR: Xamari…

I don't know that people missed it, or we're still suspicious of "one UI framework to rule them all"...

Re: Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

#12

Post by j_s »

badprose wrote: post #11
oblio wrote: post #6

Eto is very interesting but unfortunately there seems to be just 1 (very active) developer behind it, from what I can see. On the other hand, Xamarin.Forms had an announcement recently, an announcement that Hacker News missed. I submitted the news a few days ago but it didn't reach the first page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14383467 -> https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ TL;DR: Xamari…

I don't know that people missed it, or we're still suspicious of "one UI framework to rule them all"...

Right now, it's only on the roadmap.

Re: Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

#14

Post by geniium »

j_s wrote: post #7

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 appear…

This is a hot topic? Not so sure.

Re: Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

#15

Post by j_s »

geniium wrote: post #14
j_s wrote: post #7

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 appear…

This is a hot topic? Not so sure.

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/

Re: Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

#16

Post by oblio »

badprose wrote: post #11
oblio wrote: post #6

Eto is very interesting but unfortunately there seems to be just 1 (very active) developer behind it, from what I can see. On the other hand, Xamarin.Forms had an announcement recently, an announcement that Hacker News missed. I submitted the news a few days ago but it didn't reach the first page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14383467 -> https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ TL;DR: Xamari…

I don't know that people missed it, or we're still suspicious of "one UI framework to rule them all"...

The major factor is obviously the fear of Microsoft lock-in, I think. Which is reasonable.

If it's more about the technical details, such as general issues regarding cross platform UI frameworks, I think we're way past that point considering HTML5/Js :)

Re: Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

#18

Post by clintcparker »

oblio wrote: post #6

Eto is very interesting but unfortunately there seems to be just 1 (very active) developer behind it, from what I can see. On the other hand, Xamarin.Forms had an announcement recently, an announcement that Hacker News missed. I submitted the news a few days ago but it didn't reach the first page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14383467 -> https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ TL;DR: Xamari…

Great call out. Also, Xamarin Forms should be even more useful when XAML Standard drops.

https://github.com/Microsoft/xaml-standard

Re: Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

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Post by [deleted] »

oblio wrote: post #6

Eto is very interesting but unfortunately there seems to be just 1 (very active) developer behind it, from what I can see. On the other hand, Xamarin.Forms had an announcement recently, an announcement that Hacker News missed. I submitted the news a few days ago but it didn't reach the first page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14383467 -> https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/ TL;DR: Xamari…

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Re: Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework

#20

Post by pvg »

denisw wrote: post #2

Given the title, it seems that this should rather link to the framework itself ( https://github.com/picoe/Eto ).

It can't since the authors of the post are not the authors of the framework. Title should probably say template or something to that effect.
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