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Do you know about any sizeable open source projects written in C#, other than what Microsoft has produced? I rarely come across anything written in it.

whoamii 1y ago
Unity?
- atombender 1y ago
  Is Unity open source?
369548684892826 1y ago
Jellyfin / Emby A lot of the *arr tools like Sonarr Bitwarden and Keepass
- majora2007 1y ago
  Kavita (self hosting for books/comics)
Alupis 1y ago
It's a curious thing, the .NET ecosystem. The overwhelming majority of it's ecosystem seems to be dominated by Microsoft first-party libraries and frameworks. 3rd party libraries and frameworks seem to either get swallowed up by Microsoft, killed, or never reach critical-mass. Often in the .NET ecosystem, it seems there is exactly one library or framework for thing $X or $Y. Whereas in the JVM ecosystem, you have 30+ logging libraries, 87 different MVC frameworks, etc. (yes, I'm being a bit facetious, but you get the point). I imagine .NET developers often think this is a good thing, in regard to their ecosystem. No guessing what to use, just go with the "blessed" path and don't think about it. And, to that end, there is some obvious merit to this. However, I feel the .NET ecosystem loses out on cross-pollination of ideas. There's zero possibility Microsoft's employees just happen to make the best frameworks and libraries... there should be many web frameworks - each competing for mindshare and trying to out-innovate each other, each with their own pro's and con's, etc. So, while .NET might be technically open source, it still feels rather like a closed source ecosystem, controlled by a single corporate entity.
- cogman10 1y ago
  That because that's the environment MS nurtured for over a decade. They were openly hostile to things like nuget up until like 2016 or so. They purposefully made it painful to venture out of the MS ecosystem.
- mattmanser 1y ago
  It's weird you using logging as there used to be 3/4 different libraries people used (nlog, log4net, elmah, another one I forget?). Then serilog came out and pretty much everyone switched to that in a very short period.
- legulere 1y ago
  There are several logging libraries for .net as well, microsoft even lists them: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/logging-providers#third-party-logging-providers https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/log... Libraries getting swallowed up is not so bad as it sounds. For instance for web frameworks there was a phase of experimentation with projects like Nancy that inspired changes for asp.net core. There is still alternatives like fast endpoints. Also you have things happening like integrated system.text.json replacing newtonsoft.json that over time took on some cruft.
- 75345d4c 1y ago
  Why would anyone make a .NET open source library when Microsoft is quick to squash anything that is actually useful with their own open source implementation? Microsoft still has some lessons to learn about fostering an active open source ecosystem -- of course, unless they are intentionally suppressing it in .NET.
- tester756 1y ago
  >I imagine .NET developers often think this is a good thing, in regard to their ecosystem. No guessing what to use, just go with the "blessed" path and don't think about it. And, to that end, there is some obvious merit to this. Supply chain security is important thing, especially after last years You go with Microsoft's libraries and you don't have to care that much about some random developer receiving 50k USD for their GH account
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Nelkins 1y ago
Akka.NET and AvaloniaUI are two big ones.
- edtech_dev 1y ago
  I'll add Orchard CMS to this list. Also a lot of the seven seas software.
tracker1 1y ago
Can't speak for FLOSS, but I've worked on massive projects in various Banking, Govt and eLearning spaces. I've never really hurt for library support via NuGet either. It's honestly not always my first choice, but pays the bills. I mostly just dislike a lot of the excessive use of "Enterprise Patterns" for projects that don't come close to actually needing them.
zigzag312 1y ago
https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame (runs even on consoles, which is rare for open source game frameworks and engines) https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/bitwarden/server https://github.com/bitwarden/server https://github.com/unoplatform/uno https://github.com/unoplatform/uno https://github.com/files-community/Files https://github.com/files-community/Files https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif https://github.com/DevToys-app/DevToys https://github.com/DevToys-app/DevToys https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryujinx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryujinx https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/ https://github.com/orchardcms https://github.com/orchardcms https://github.com/piranhacms/piranha.core https://github.com/piranhacms/piranha.core https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS
- HeliumHydride 1y ago
  https://github.com/SM64-TAS-ABC/STROOP https://github.com/SM64-TAS-ABC/STROOP
- vizzier 1y ago
  https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet
- jayd16 1y ago
  The FFXIV extension/mod tool is a fun example. https://github.com/goatcorp/Dalamud https://github.com/goatcorp/Dalamud
orphea 1y ago
Ryujinx, a state-of-the-art Switch 1 emulator, was open source and written in C#
legulere 1y ago
Bitwarden
louthy 1y ago
Not sure what your definition of sizable is. But if it’s just physical size of repo then my language-ext project [1] is about half a million lines of code, ~7,000 stars, and ~25 million downloads. We are out there :) [1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext https://github.com/louthy/language-ext
jamesfinlayson 1y ago
https://github.com/paintdotnet https://github.com/paintdotnet was the first one that came to mind.
oaiey 1y ago
It is a self-fullfilling prophecy: No big open source without motivated contributors, no contributors because of bad rap because of no big open source projects. It is not technology what holds .NET back. It is also not politics (nearly all languages have evil overlords). It is people who hold up to statements like: "I will not touch .NET with a 10-stick-pole"

whoamii 1y ago

Unity?

atombender 1y ago
Is Unity open source?

369548684892826 1y ago

Jellyfin / Emby A lot of the *arr tools like Sonarr Bitwarden and Keepass

majora2007 1y ago
Kavita (self hosting for books/comics)

Alupis 1y ago

It's a curious thing, the .NET ecosystem. The overwhelming majority of it's ecosystem seems to be dominated by Microsoft first-party libraries and frameworks. 3rd party libraries and frameworks seem to either get swallowed up by Microsoft, killed, or never reach critical-mass. Often in the .NET ecosystem, it seems there is exactly one library or framework for thing $X or $Y. Whereas in the JVM ecosystem, you have 30+ logging libraries, 87 different MVC frameworks, etc. (yes, I'm being a bit facetious, but you get the point). I imagine .NET developers often think this is a good thing, in regard to their ecosystem. No guessing what to use, just go with the "blessed" path and don't think about it. And, to that end, there is some obvious merit to this. However, I feel the .NET ecosystem loses out on cross-pollination of ideas. There's zero possibility Microsoft's employees just happen to make the best frameworks and libraries... there should be many web frameworks - each competing for mindshare and trying to out-innovate each other, each with their own pro's and con's, etc. So, while .NET might be technically open source, it still feels rather like a closed source ecosystem, controlled by a single corporate entity.

cogman10 1y ago
That because that's the environment MS nurtured for over a decade. They were openly hostile to things like nuget up until like 2016 or so. They purposefully made it painful to venture out of the MS ecosystem.
mattmanser 1y ago
It's weird you using logging as there used to be 3/4 different libraries people used (nlog, log4net, elmah, another one I forget?). Then serilog came out and pretty much everyone switched to that in a very short period.
legulere 1y ago
There are several logging libraries for .net as well, microsoft even lists them: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/logging-providers#third-party-logging-providers https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/extensions/log... Libraries getting swallowed up is not so bad as it sounds. For instance for web frameworks there was a phase of experimentation with projects like Nancy that inspired changes for asp.net core. There is still alternatives like fast endpoints. Also you have things happening like integrated system.text.json replacing newtonsoft.json that over time took on some cruft.
75345d4c 1y ago
Why would anyone make a .NET open source library when Microsoft is quick to squash anything that is actually useful with their own open source implementation? Microsoft still has some lessons to learn about fostering an active open source ecosystem -- of course, unless they are intentionally suppressing it in .NET.
tester756 1y ago
>I imagine .NET developers often think this is a good thing, in regard to their ecosystem. No guessing what to use, just go with the "blessed" path and don't think about it. And, to that end, there is some obvious merit to this. Supply chain security is important thing, especially after last years You go with Microsoft's libraries and you don't have to care that much about some random developer receiving 50k USD for their GH account

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Nelkins 1y ago

Akka.NET and AvaloniaUI are two big ones.

edtech_dev 1y ago
I'll add Orchard CMS to this list. Also a lot of the seven seas software.

tracker1 1y ago

Can't speak for FLOSS, but I've worked on massive projects in various Banking, Govt and eLearning spaces. I've never really hurt for library support via NuGet either. It's honestly not always my first choice, but pays the bills. I mostly just dislike a lot of the excessive use of "Enterprise Patterns" for projects that don't come close to actually needing them.

zigzag312 1y ago

https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame (runs even on consoles, which is rare for open source game frameworks and engines) https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit https://github.com/SubtitleEdit/subtitleedit https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/bitwarden/server https://github.com/bitwarden/server https://github.com/unoplatform/uno https://github.com/unoplatform/uno https://github.com/files-community/Files https://github.com/files-community/Files https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif https://github.com/NickeManarin/ScreenToGif https://github.com/DevToys-app/DevToys https://github.com/DevToys-app/DevToys https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass https://github.com/d2phap/ImageGlass https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX https://github.com/ShareX/ShareX https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA https://github.com/OpenRA/OpenRA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryujinx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryujinx https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/keepass/ https://github.com/orchardcms https://github.com/orchardcms https://github.com/piranhacms/piranha.core https://github.com/piranhacms/piranha.core https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS https://github.com/umbraco/Umbraco-CMS

HeliumHydride 1y ago
https://github.com/SM64-TAS-ABC/STROOP https://github.com/SM64-TAS-ABC/STROOP
vizzier 1y ago
https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet https://github.com/quozd/awesome-dotnet
jayd16 1y ago
The FFXIV extension/mod tool is a fun example. https://github.com/goatcorp/Dalamud https://github.com/goatcorp/Dalamud

orphea 1y ago

Ryujinx, a state-of-the-art Switch 1 emulator, was open source and written in C#

legulere 1y ago

Bitwarden

louthy 1y ago

Not sure what your definition of sizable is. But if it’s just physical size of repo then my language-ext project [1] is about half a million lines of code, ~7,000 stars, and ~25 million downloads. We are out there :) [1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext https://github.com/louthy/language-ext

jamesfinlayson 1y ago

https://github.com/paintdotnet https://github.com/paintdotnet was the first one that came to mind.

oaiey 1y ago

It is a self-fullfilling prophecy: No big open source without motivated contributors, no contributors because of bad rap because of no big open source projects. It is not technology what holds .NET back. It is also not politics (nearly all languages have evil overlords). It is people who hold up to statements like: "I will not touch .NET with a 10-stick-pole"