• Thinker@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Have you tried developing a GUI app for Windows in the last 5 years? All the official first-party frameworks are either mostly deprecated (WPF, WinForms), or half-baked and despised by every developer I’ve talked to about them (MAUI).

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      7 months ago

      Well WinUI is supposed to fix the mess caused by UWP and later on UWP that came from the Windows 8 era… WinUI is decent, at least it isn’t lacking major features like the other two.

      .NET MAUI is a very different thing… it’s a cross-platform framework for creating native mobile and desktop apps with C# and XAML. It’s like Qt and obviously when we’re talking about developing apps for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS with a single frameworks things are bound to be harder.