• doorknob@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    We chose to stick with WPF at work some years ago due to developing for Windows systems exclusively. Seeing the development still going into Avalonia is making me feel a bit like the grass might be greener over there.

    Does anyone have experience with app deployment in a form similar to ClickOnce deployment using it?

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    1 year ago

    Oh boy, now I need to find a new excuse to procrastinate on the project I want to start using Avalonia.

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      1 year ago

      Well, for starters, WinUI 3 is Windows only (correct me if I’m wrong), while Avalonia supports Windows, MacOS, Linux, Android, iOS and WebAssembly.

      The cross-platform solution that Microsoft advocates for is MAUI, which doesn’t support Linux. And it uses native controls, meaning you may encounter platform-specific bugs, while Avalonia renders the controls the same way everywhere using Skia (same approach with Flutter).

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      1 year ago

      WinUI 3 is essentially boring. If you’re seeing any avalonia content, it’'s pretty much just community interest, because they have no marketing department that I know of. There’s just avaloniaui_mike who makes the occasional reddit post about some cool new thing they implemented.

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          1 year ago

          Boring is subjective. I don’t find it interesting. I’ve never seen a dev who find it interesting beyond “oh uwp is dead, I guess I should port my app over”. It doesn’t bring anything particularly new to the table that I know of. If you think it does, I’m listening.

          I’m not sure what you mean by my yardstick here. I do find avalonia interesting.

          Also both of avalonia’s paid products are b2b and my proof is only anecdotal, but I find it unlikely you’ll see any paid advertising for it on reddit or threadiverse. That’s all.