Anyone who tried to do serious native windows dev has been burnt so often by Microsoft. I really wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt with WinUI 3 but I really cannot anymore. Until proven otherwise I expect absolutely nothing to improve meaningfully. It’s extremely sad for those of us who were dumb enough to think Microsoft take on modern GUI would be interesting to follow closely, we are in 2026 and WPF is still the way to go IMHO.

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Rohansi 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> we are in 2026 and WPF is still the way to go IMHO.

Why not Avalonia? It's not Microsoft but it is a spiritual successor to WPF, cross-platform, and open source.

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dgellow 7 hours ago | parent [-]

Sure, Avalonia is fine. I meant specifically Microsoft offering

	▲	Rohansi an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Why limit yourself to Microsoft's offerings? They've dropped the ball on all of their UI frameworks I don't see why anyone would trust them to build software on. Give it a few more years and MAUI will join the list of abandoned UI frameworks and another one will pop up

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jimjimjim 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yep, it's 2026 and I'm still 8 hours a day in win32.

	▲	mrec 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		What kind of thing do you write? I'm still amazed at how much functionality is packed into tiny binaries like the sysinternals tools, and depressed at how acceptable 50MB todo apps have become.
	▲	Traubenfuchs 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		May I ask what kind of work you do at what sounds like a dream job to me?