Splat
A cross-platform library for .NET providing service location, logging, image loading, and geometry primitives to reduce platform-specific code.
What is Splat?
Splat is a .NET library that provides leaky abstractions over platform-specific APIs to enable cross-platform development with fewer #ifdef directives. It solves the problem of writing shared codebases that need to handle graphics, logging, dependency injection, and other tasks consistently across WPF, Windows Forms, WinUI, MAUI, Avalonia, and other platforms. The library offers escape hatches like ToNative() and FromNative() methods to access platform-specific APIs when needed.
.NET developers building cross-platform desktop and mobile applications targeting multiple UI frameworks like WPF, WinUI, MAUI, and Avalonia. It is particularly useful for teams maintaining shared codebases that need to abstract platform-specific tasks such as image loading, logging, and dependency injection.
Developers choose Splat over alternatives because it provides a pragmatic, leaky abstraction that simplifies cross-platform code while allowing direct access to native APIs when necessary. Its high-performance, AOT-optimized dependency injection container and built-in adapters for popular logging frameworks and APM tools reduce boilerplate and improve consistency across platforms.
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Makes things cross-platform
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