NEneonsunset·Aug 25, 2024
There is https://github.com/stride3d/stride which should be pretty close to what you are looking for :)
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Stride (formerly Xenko), a free and open-source cross-platform C# game engine.
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Stride (formerly Xenko), a free and open-source cross-platform C# game engine.
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| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesPretty much every non-GUI (and GUI if it's Avalonia/Uno/etc.) .NET application, unless it uses niche things like windows registery or management API, is by definition platform agnostic and runs wherever .NET runs (macOS, Linux, FreeBSD(with caveats), Android, iOS, Windows, sometimes in browser with WASM). Most businesses which have moved away from old versions run their server workloads on Linux hosts within K8S or otherwise.
Popular applications that run on Linux are
Jellyfin: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin
Sonarr (and other High Seas apps): https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr
Ryujinx: https://github.com/Ryujinx/Ryujinx (the kind of project that could likely compete with writing a browser in complexity)
Bitwarden (server): https://github.com/bitwarden
Garnet: https://github.com/microsoft/garnet (likely the fastest Redis implementation
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Stride3D: https://github.com/stride3d/stride
Godot (offers C# as script language, using regular .NET)
Various MonoGame and FNA games (which use vanilla .NET unlike Unity, there was even a game on Nintendo Switch with private FNA fork).
From the top of my head, I'm sure there are many others.
The other big news item is the fact a former Stride dev is making the editor cross-platform by using porting the WPF code to Avalonia.
https://github.com/stride3d/stride/pull/2034
In Announcing Stride 4.2 with .NET 8 supportPlease correct me if I am wrong, but from a bit of looking around it seems Stride is using Mono as a runtime for on mobile platforms like iOS. [0] So similar to Unity (which worked around this using their IL2CPP backend) it actually is behind Godot in terms of C# language / feature support.
It is true that Godot community only started to get serious about C#, but they have a good pace, and already have support for the latest .NET with AOT.
Personally I have no interest in GDScript, but I recently ported a rather large C# code-base from Unity to Godot and I never had to touch GDScript. So it can happily be ignored.
In general it took me less time to rewrite the code-base then implementing some of the workarounds for missing features in Unity (e.g. HTTP2) in the first place.
[0] https://github.com/stride3d/stride/issues/2069
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