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Comment by Rohansi

19 hours ago

> 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.

Sure, Avalonia is fine. I meant specifically Microsoft offering

  • 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

    • I was specifically talking about my frustration with Microsoft. MAUI was indeed pretty much on arrival, what a waste of the Xamarin name…