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?
Is there any catch?
Site says its opensource. Are there any loopholes or critical choke points that necessitate shifting to something paid?
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-sustainabil...
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]
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
Has been great so far. The core team is approachable and really cares.