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Comment by fsloth

16 days ago

Sure but different target market.

CRUD apps are non-trivial.

If Unity were to ship platform native replacement for WPF equivalent (hell or even winforms) it would become a really enticing app development platform.

> CRUD apps are non-trivial.

Aren't these pretty much the most trivial UI apps possible? E.g. compared to other native apps like Photoshop, Blender, Visual Studio or Office, CRUD is mostly just about banging together custom UI frontend for a database.

Unity's editor is implemented in its own (old) UI system, same with Godot, so in both engines it's possible to create 'traditional' non-game UI applications.

  • A professional GUI requires quite a lot.

    A Unity expert can correct me, but IIRC (possibly wrongly) at least the following limitations apply:

    For example Unity does not have accessibility features (screen readers etc) nor I don’t think it’s DPI aware. I would _guess_ it does not support platform fonts. Not sure if it supports non-latin font layouts like arabic. Etc etc.