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Anyone using this in production? Is there any catch? Site says its opensource. Are there any loopholes or critical choke points that necessitate shifting to s

Anyone using this in production? Is there any catch? Site says its opensource. Are there any loopholes or critical choke points that necessitate shifting to something paid?

Rohansi 3y ago
Plastic SCM uses it
sandermvanvliet 3y ago
So perhaps not “production” in the terms you’re thinking of but I’ve built https://roadcaptain.nl https://roadcaptain.nl with AvaloniaUI and I’ve been pretty happy with both the results as well as the developer experience. One of my requirements was a cross platform UI framework _for desktop_ as I target Windows, Linux and macOS. Look and feel is totally custom and not using native elements by choice. So if you’re looking to do that AvaloniaUI might not be what you want
JaggerJo 3y ago
We use it in production for a bunch of apps. Has been great so far. The core team is approachable and really cares.
sltr 3y ago
Production user here. I've found no money "gotchas". They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1]. The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases. See my comment [2] [1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128
MikeCodesDotNET 3y ago
To name a few: Schneider Electric, JetBrains, GitHub, Datadog, AMD, KLM, Moodys Analytics and tons more. There’s no catch. The project is OSS (MIT license) and has been since the projects inception over a decade ago. There isn’t a paid version of Avalonia at all, so no gatekeeping of features. We instead generate revenue from support agreements, development services and selling our cross-platform fork of WPF. You can read a little more about it on our blog: https://avaloniaui.net/Blog/balancing-growth-and-sustainability-avalonia-s-financial-evolution https://avaloniaui.net/Blog/balancing-growth-and-sustainabil...

Anyone using this in production? Is there any catch? Site says its opensource. Are there any loopholes or critical choke points that necessitate shifting to something paid?

Rohansi 3y ago

Plastic SCM uses it

sandermvanvliet 3y ago

So perhaps not “production” in the terms you’re thinking of but I’ve built https://roadcaptain.nl https://roadcaptain.nl with AvaloniaUI and I’ve been pretty happy with both the results as well as the developer experience. One of my requirements was a cross platform UI framework _for desktop_ as I target Windows, Linux and macOS. Look and feel is totally custom and not using native elements by choice. So if you’re looking to do that AvaloniaUI might not be what you want

JaggerJo 3y ago

We use it in production for a bunch of apps. Has been great so far. The core team is approachable and really cares.

sltr 3y ago

Production user here. I've found no money "gotchas". They're above reproach. In fact, I've received considerable free support from their devs on GitHub Issues [1]. The Avalonia business model is based on selling XPF, which runs WPF (Windows-only) apps on other platforms. That's very interesting to big corps with existing codebases. See my comment [2] [1] https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/issues [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39246988#39249128

MikeCodesDotNET 3y ago

To name a few: Schneider Electric, JetBrains, GitHub, Datadog, AMD, KLM, Moodys Analytics and tons more. There’s no catch. The project is OSS (MIT license) and has been since the projects inception over a decade ago. There isn’t a paid version of Avalonia at all, so no gatekeeping of features. We instead generate revenue from support agreements, development services and selling our cross-platform fork of WPF. You can read a little more about it on our blog: https://avaloniaui.net/Blog/balancing-growth-and-sustainability-avalonia-s-financial-evolution https://avaloniaui.net/Blog/balancing-growth-and-sustainabil...