It seems there is also an offering from nevron

https://www.nevron.com


> On 30 Nov 2014, at 15:30, Edward Ned Harvey (mono) 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> From: Terry Reese [mailto:[email protected]]
>> 
>> Thanks -- I'd looked at the Xamarin forms, but I'm only interested in client
>> development -- no iOS or Android, so that seems non-optimal at this point.
>> The XWT sounds interesting, but I couldn't tell if it was actually an active
>> project.  Most of the discussion about it has been around 2012, though I see
>> there have been some recent check-in on Git, so maybe.  I had the same
>> question with the ETO project.  These seem like one off efforts, and I was
>> something that was actually being baked into mono and actually maintained
>> (not like Windows.Forms has been).
> 
> I'm not sure how "active" a project needs to be - I am a maintainer on 
> rdiff-backup, and nobody's committed anything in like 3 years because there's 
> so little demand for any changes.  Basically, it's stable and very little 
> need to continue working on it.
> 
> Xwt and Eto, however, are a little bit different.  It's understandable that 
> OS interfaces will change over time, some development effort will always be 
> needed to maintain, but there's no sign of falling below THAT threshold right 
> now.
> 
> Xwt is currently used by Xamarin.Studio / Monodevelop, which suggests quite a 
> bit of feature capability and stability and compatibility.  However, they're 
> moving away from it because they need more control, available by using the 
> native toolkits directly.  In my opinion, that's not condemning to Xwt - It's 
> an indicator that they have sufficient development effort available as to 
> maintain the separate projects for each platform, but for those who can't or 
> don't want to afford the extra effort, Xwt could still be useful as long as 
> it does what you want & need it to do.
> 
> I don't know what projects out there use Eto, but it seems to be bigger, more 
> robust and more actively maintained than Xwt.
> 
> FWIW, I have not yet used either one personally.  It's on the to-do list, to 
> evaluate them.
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