Frederic Bastien

Today is a special and emotional day for the Uno team and me as it marks a defining milestone with the release of Uno Platform 6.0 and Uno Platform Studio. Since inception, we've been laser-focused on redefining developer productivity, benchmarking ourselves against other ecosystems like Flutter, and making sure there would be a viable option in the .NET community we call home. Uno Platform Studio brings the power of no-code tooling to professional developers, with the goal of helping everyone become a 10X developer. It introduces Hot Design—an industry-first Visual Designer—alongside the most advanced Hot Reload experience for .NET and a unique Design-to-code accelerator for Figma. At its core, 6.0 is the fastest and most lightweight version of Uno ever. We've achieved up to 75% smaller package sizes, 30% lower memory usage, 3X faster startup times, and up to 100X faster execution, making it arguably the fastest .NET UI framework available. If you ever tried Uno before, now is a unique time to take it for another spin. You'll be amazed to witness how it truly is the most complete and productive way to build apps with #dotnet. Cheers to the team, to our dedicated community, to our loyal customers, and to a lot more innovation! 🍾🥂🎉

A lot of ink has been spilled about Canadian tech and how to level up. The objective is well known, more enduring & consequential companies. We need more tech players like Shopify, Lightspeed, Cohere, Hopper, Constellation, etc. The big question is how. Some ideas come to mind: - Keep the best founders here. The siren song of the south is strong. We need to make it more appealing to build in Canada (easier said than done) - More private capital to support early stage founders. We need to attract private LPs to fund risk capital and have a counter weight to US investors. In order to attract private capital, the asset class also needs to perform better (bit of a chicken & egg problem). Ultimately, the right to work with the best founders is earned of course, stronger investors would help keep the best companies here. Also, we can’t count on institutional LPs to support the entire VC asset class. - Exited / successful founders should reinvest back into their local ecosystem. Anecdotally, I’ve seen many successful founders that don’t become angels or LPs in funds. This is one of the secrets of the valley. Again, this is just anecdotal and not blaming anyone in particular.