I have started using Avalonia, and even though I am still learning, I am very satisfied with it. There are growing pains obviously, but as you said, I have no confidence in Microsoft UI frameworks.

I have no experience with it, but I noticed there is no community for Julia (both url and display name). The locked down subreddit had almost 23,000 subscribers (if you build it, they will come ;) ).

My bad, the link I sent was not about NativeAOT, just bundling all the dependencies together (also, it’s 4 years old). After a quick search, here’s a recent SO question that mentions that you can build .exe files

As for the filesize… please recheck the post under which we are commenting. :D

Does it effectively output a single binary?

Yes, that’s one of the points of NativeAOT, a self-contained single binary, exactly as Go does it.

Does it create some kind of clusterf*k and awkward packaging formats like other MS solutions such as UWP?

No, you can create .exe files.

Will it actually be deployable to a random fresh install of Debian 12 or Windows 10?

Yes, NativeAOT supports Windows, Linux and MacOS, x64 and Arm64.

What about compatibility with older systems?

Not sure about that, I suppose it depends on the targets each .NET version support. For example, .NET 8 will drop RHEL 7 and only RHEL 8 and later.

And to play devil’s advocate: this won’t work for all existing .NET applications. If you use reflection (which is AOT unfriendly), chances are that you will have to rework a ton of stuff in order to get to a point where NativeAOT works. There’s a middle solution though, called ReadyToRun, which has some advantages compared to running fully with the JIT compiler.

I have no problem with adding more mods, but unless I missed something I can’t find any setting to do so. Except for the posts, all I can customize are the logo / banner images and the sidebar. Maybe I’m missing something or this can only be done by admins for the time being.

Thanks, I posted there.

Can we have one for LaTeX (both url and display name)? Thanks!

Thanks, I can help moderating it.

Thanks, I’ll do my best!

I am working primarily with .NET (c/dotnet) and C# (c/csharp). Although I have limited time, I can try helping moderate the two communities for the time being.

Can we have commandline (both url and display name)? In order to share recommendations & news about software that runs on the terminal, without a UI.