Mike James

@AvaloniaUI. Formerly @Microsoft + @XamarinHQ. Views are my own, as are the ViewModels. Neurodiverse | Him/He

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@James_M_South @AvaloniaUI Love it! Let us know if we can help you at all

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@Aaronontheweb @James_M_South They did.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@James_M_South @Aaronontheweb I feel you. I was the same and reached breaking point earlier this year. I now don’t even look. Ignorance is truly bliss.

It genuinely isn’t easy to maintain a popular project. If you ever want to chat, I can poor a glass of whisky and jump on a call.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@James_M_South @Aaronontheweb They’re too busy removing genuinely useful content, like the Avalonia 12 release post 😬

[Mapsui @Mapsui]

Avalonia 12 support was added to Mapsui 5.1.0-beta.7 🎉We had quite some requests for this.

Can I have some cheers from the Avalonia community?

Release notes: https://t.co/2UPA4Uc1p9

@AvaloniaUI @MikeCodesDotNET

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@CordasFilip @AvaloniaUI > uncomfortably aggressive.
If you're talking about the IDE extension, we show a price and also point people to the community edition. Hardly aggressive.

breaking changes between MAJOR versions. You forgot a word. https://t.co/nqBbcub5Vk

Docs are up to date.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

We’ve also made our Visual Studio Code extension free.

No account required, just download, install and start building!

[Avalonia UI @AvaloniaUI]

1007 days since we released Avalonia 11.

Avalonia 12.0 is available NuGet now!

Our mantra has been: PERFORMANCE, PERFORMANCE, PERFORMANCE!

https://t.co/cVqwUCoR0I

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@wieslawsoltes @BStebner37961 @nkanauzu @washi_dev This is plainly untrue.

Just last week we release the RC1 of v12, a MAUI backend and open-sourced our WebView.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@wieslawsoltes @nkanauzu @BStebner37961 @washi_dev It’s a fact. We shared the evidence and you threatened legal action.

I remember when you deleted your repos because you said people were acting entitled.

This isn’t the first time you’ve thrown a tantrum. This time it’s aimed at us, but your behaviour isn’t new.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@nkanauzu @BStebner37961 @washi_dev @wieslawsoltes It was announced on the core team chat.

Wieslaw had already rage quit that group for other reasons, so he missed the message.

We contacted him separately within hours of the change and offered multiple options.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@wieslawsoltes You've been banned for persistent bad-faith engagements with the team.

This will be our last communication with you.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@wieslawsoltes @jinekLESNIK @ScoutMW Rust is trademarked by the Rust Foundation. Python is trademarked by the PSF. Docker, Kubernetes, Linux, all trademarked.

Are these also not open source?

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

To be clear. @kekekeks isn't the contributor throwing our slop. He's on the receiving end of it.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

The particular 'contributor' has been vibe-coding slop knockoffs of our products, and is now complaining that we won't share our roadmap with him...

There's a limited market for vibe-coded slop alternatives. Customers ultimately want quality and stability.

[Kekekeks @kekekeks]

I'm so done with OSS. I do a refactoring to fix perf, it has a bug due to a typo. Bug is reported and a huge AI-slop PR arrives. I push one-line fix for the typo. Fast forward a month, the vibe-coder complains that his PR isn't getting traction and accuses for copying his AI fix.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@jinekLESNIK @wieslawsoltes @ScoutMW MIT covers the code, not the branding. This is the norm for almost every established FOSS project.

You can fork Firefox, but you can't call your fork 'Firefox Community' or anything that uses their trademark.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@wieslawsoltes @ScoutMW @jinekLESNIK Yes. The source code. Avalonia's source code is free to use as well.

You clearly don't understand the difference between a licence for source code and a licence to use a trademark.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@wieslawsoltes @ScoutMW @jinekLESNIK By that logic, Linux isn't OSS as Linus Torvalds holds the trademark.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@wieslawsoltes @ScoutMW @jinekLESNIK Avalonia is MIT licensed. It always has been. That's about as OSS as it gets.

[Mike James @MikeCodesDotNET]

@wieslawsoltes @ScoutMW @jinekLESNIK We're simply quoting you. You've been very transparent and consistent about using Codex to vibe code.

The actual low blow here is saying that Avalonia is no longer OSS because your PR didn't get merged.