We're excited to announce that Avalonia UI has invested in Wilderness Labs, the team behind Meadow, a secure, enterprise-grade IoT platform that brings .NET to microcontrollers.
A Natural Partnership
We've been following Wilderness Labs since their successful Kickstarter campaign. Having worked alongside Bryan Costanich (Wilderness Labs CEO) back at Xamarin, I've watched the team tackle one of the toughest challenges in embedded development: making microcontroller programming accessible to the millions of .NET developers worldwide. Their mission to bring .NET everywhere aligns perfectly with Avalonia's vision of enabling .NET development across all platforms and devices.
Why This Matters for Our Community
Avalonia has become incredibly popular with embedded developers building user interfaces for industrial equipment, kiosks, digital signage, and other specialised hardware. The Wilderness Labs platform is a natural complement to this work. Many embedded applications require both sophisticated UI (where Avalonia excels) and low-level hardware control (where Meadow shines).
By bringing C# and .NET to microcontrollers, Wilderness Labs is eliminating the need for embedded developers to context-switch between languages and toolchains. Instead of writing UI code in C# with Avalonia and microcontroller code in C/C++, developers can now use .NET across the entire stack.
Already Working Together
We've been collaborating with Wilderness Labs for a while now, which is why you can find a sample demonstrating how to use Avalonia with Meadow in the Wilderness Labs samples repository. We're keen to continue this collaboration and see .NET continue to expand into sectors historically seen as exclusively for C and C++.
What's Next
As we deepen our partnership, we'll be integrating components of Wilderness Labs' open-source technology into Avalonia's tooling. This means even better developer experiences for building complete embedded solutions, from the microcontroller layer all the way up to the user interface.
The problems Wilderness Labs is solving are genuinely difficult. This is deep tech at its most challenging. Modern IoT deployments demand enterprise-grade security, over-the-air updates, remote management, and scalability, while running on resource-constrained hardware. Their full-stack approach, combining hardware, a managed runtime OS with cloud services, represents a significant advancement for industrial IoT development.
We're thrilled to support the Wilderness Labs team as they continue building the future of .NET embedded development.
Learn more about Wilderness Labs at wildernesslabs.co.
