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Uno Platform
Company blog · platform.uno/blogprogrammingweb
Uno Platform is the company blog at platform.uno, writing about programming and web. Since 2018, 69 different Hacker News readers have linked it 162 times, most often “Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link platform.uno as the official site for Uno Platform, a .NET framework for building apps across Windows, web (WebAssembly), iOS, Android and Linux. Comments cite it for product facts, not writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Uno Platform is the most complete cross-platform .NET UI framework for Web, Mobile, Desktop and Embedded. Boost productivity with Visual Designer, C# and XAML.
Most-linked posts?
- Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux29 people · 58 mentions · first linked 2018-10-02
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-05-06
- Uno Platform Studio: GUI Designer for Cross-Platform .NET Applications3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-11-15
- Uno, Using Wasm (and XAML) on iOS, Android3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-05-08
- /hot-design/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-11-16
- /uno-platform-for-web-webassembly/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-11-24
- What WASM 3.0 launch means for .NET Developers2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-02
- /code-samples/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-28
- The Next Chapter: Uno Platform Studio and Uno Platform 6.02 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-05-09
- WebAssembly for .NET Devs: Building with Uno Platform, XAML, and C#2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-08
What Hacker News says?
Yes. https://platform.uno/uno-platform-for-linux/
Comment linking /uno-platform-for-linux/
on “Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team”Submitted Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux as a story · 359 points
HN discussion> - If you are working on Linux, you can build and deploy Android apps only > - You need a valid Visual Studio or IntelliCode subscription You don't: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-dotne... (DevKit, which is the licensed one, is completely optional - it gives you VS-style solution explorer. You can already get it with e.g. F#'s Ionide that works for any .NET file in the solution, though I use…
Comment linking /docs/articles/get-started-vscode.html?tabs=linux%2Cubuntu1804
on “Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team”Submitted Uno: Create Beautiful Cross Platform .NET Apps Faster as a story · 208 points
HN discussionThere is also Uno https://platform.uno/
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on “Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team”Submitted Uno Platform Studio: GUI Designer for Cross-Platform .NET Applications as a story · 74 points
HN discussionYou can use third party libs like Avalonia[1] or Uno[2] [1] https://avaloniaui.net/ [2] https://platform.uno/
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on “Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team”Submitted Blazor Mobile, Uno Platform, and WebAssembly as a story · 64 points
HN discussionBasically yes, for example https://platform.uno/
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on “Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering”Submitted Uno Platform Studio Featuring Hot Design as a story · 59 points
HN discussionWASM is still catching up with Flash CrossBridge from 2011. "Unreal Engine 3 Support for Adobe Flash Player - Unreal Tournament 3" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQiUP2Hd60Y https://adobe-flash.github.io/crossbridge/ Luckily we are getting our plugins back, even in its present state. https://platform.uno/ https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor And naturally Flash and Java applets, https://www.lean…
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on “Fastly hires entire Wasmtime team from Mozilla”Submitted Uno Platform 4 as a story · 59 points
HN discussionSee https://platform.uno/
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on “.NET 5”Submitted Uno Platform – Cross Platform .NET UI as a story · 51 points
HN discussionYou can run UWP apps on all platforms using the Uno Platform. https://platform.uno
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on “.NET 5”Submitted Windows 10 Calculator is now running on WebAssembly, natively on iOS and Android as a story · 40 points
HN discussionUno [1] and Avalonia [2]? [1]: https://platform.uno/ [2]: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
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on “Using Gooey as a Universal Front End for Any Language or CLI Application”Submitted The State of WebAssembly – 2023 and 2024 as a story · 30 points
HN discussionhttps://platform.uno/ is an option for building web apps with xaml
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on “Servo's progress in 2024”Submitted .NET 6 New Project Templates and Minimal APIs as a story · 11 points
HN discussionAvalonia: https://avaloniaui.net/ , https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/overview/supported-platform... Uno: https://platform.uno/ , https://platform.uno/platforms/
Comment linking /platforms/
on “HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere”Submitted Uno, Using Wasm (and XAML) on iOS, Android as a story · 8 points
HN discussionAutodesk. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/autocad-webassembly/ https://blogs.autodesk.com/autocad/autocad-web-app-google-io... https://forge.autodesk.com/blog/load-encrypted-model-data-we... BabylonJS plugins https://babylonjs.medium.com/marker-tracking-in-babylon-js-c... Blazor https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor Uno https://platform.uno/
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on “WebAssembly Studio”Submitted Overcoming WASDK's XAML Limitation with Uno Platform's C# Markup as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThat was the idea, the world decided otherwise based on the Flash and Silverlight experience versus clunky Web. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor https://platform.uno/ https://leaningtech.com/ https://flutter.dev/ https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_for_WebAssembly
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on “WebContainers: Run Node.js natively in the browser”Submitted What WASM 3.0 launch means for .NET Developers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionUno Platform will release a new visual editor soon: https://platform.uno/blog/uno-platform-studio-featuring-hot-...
Comment linking /blog/uno-platform-studio-featuring-hot-design/
on “Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#”Submitted Show HN: Hot Design – Like Hot Reload, but a Runtime Visual Designer as a story · 4 points
HN discussionI was about to suggest that we've been here before with the likes of Xamarin, but then I read: https://platform.uno/how-it-works/ It appears to be built on Xamarin. What we have here is cross-platform for .NET developers.
Comment linking /how-it-works/
on “Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux”Submitted The State of WebAssembly 2022-2023 as a story · 4 points
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