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  • 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).





  • Correct me if I 'm wrong, but I think it’s still the same situation since January 2020: the long-term-supported (LTS) Qt releases are available to commercial licensees only and KDE supports collections of patches for them. Which is a hassle for sure. But nothing has changed because a fork of Qt (worst case scenario) would demand massive manpower from KDE.

    And the KDE Free Qt Foundation exists, so the Qt Company can’t close down the framework.

    The Foundation has license agreements with The Qt Company, Digia and Nokia. The agreements ensure that the Qt will continue to be available as Free Software. Should The Qt Company discontinue the development of the Qt Free Edition under the required licenses, then the Foundation has the right to release Qt under a BSD-style license or under other open source licenses. The agreements stay valid in case of a buy-out, a merger or bankruptcy.








  • Right now obviously the content feed and the users contributing are low enough so they could be merged effectively.

    In case the Fediverse and this instance grow rapidly though, I think that 2 communities would be more beneficial: having a more active community about C#, with questions about the language, its syntax, each new feature introduced etc, while the .NET community would undoubtly see less content and focus more on the underlying framework, the toolchain, language-agnostic discussions… In my experience, this is how it worked on the subreddits of the same names.

    Do you want to have a banner added on the sidebar, redirecting to /c/dotnet until we grow larger? Does Lemmy have a polling functionality (to ask the user opinions)? I couldn’t find anything.