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AvaloniaUI
Avalonia
C#2014–2025
AvaloniaUI / Avalonia

Avalonia

Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The future of .NET UI

Web DevelopmentSystems & InfrastructureHardware & EmbeddedMobile & Desktop
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What to know before exploring

What it is

Develop Desktop, Embedded, Mobile and WebAssembly apps with C# and XAML. The future of .NET UI

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Where it is used

  • ILSpy — ILSpy uses Avalonia to build its cross-platform desktop UI for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Source
  • Wasabi Wallet — Wasabi Wallet uses the Avalonia framework to build its cross-platform desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Source

What people are saying

Showcase of apps built with avalonia: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia#showcase Saw this update for Avalonia that I wanted to share, since the prospects of the new…

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Also in these discussions

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 6:59:22 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year79 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-09-08 22:02:04 UTC to 2025-07-30 18:52:08 UTC.

0510152014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 3 submissions, 1 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 0 submissions, 13 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 0 submissions, 10 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 9 mentions; 0 submissions, 9 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 2 submissions, 3 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 2 submissions, 6 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 1 submissions, 3 comments2025

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC431
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13013
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC10010
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC909
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC523
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC826
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC413

What Hacker News says

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rpeden·Oct 26, 2016
It'll almost have parity with Java once Core support .NET Standard 2.0. One admittedly unpopular area it'll be missing is options for desktop development. I know that the trend these days is to use web interfaces, and web development makes up about 95% of my professional life. But just out of curiosity, I picked up a WPF book from the library. And as I was reading through it, I remember thinking how nice it would be to be able to develop web apps with something like that. I suppose Silverlight would've been close, but it's dead these days. It looks like JavaFX is broadly similar to WPF over in Java-land, and it appears to work fairly well cross platform. It doesn't look native on any platform, but that isn't always a deal breaker. Using Intellij's non-native looking Swing UI on my MacBook doesn't bother me, though I appreciate that not ev
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eryone feels that way. I suppose this is my roundabout way of saying I'd love to have a decent cross platform .NET GUI framework. For anyone who wants this too, Avalonia looks like a good project to follow: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia It doesn't appear to support .NET Core yet, but last time I checked they expected to be able to relatively soon.
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