It'll almost have parity with Java once Core support .NET Standard 2.0. One admittedly unpopular area it'll be missing is options for desktop development. I kn

It'll almost have parity with Java once Core support .NET Standard 2.0. One admittedly unpopular area it'll be missing is options for desktop development. I know that the trend these days is to use web interfaces, and web development makes up about 95% of my professional life. But just out of curiosity, I picked up a WPF book from the library. And as I was reading through it, I remember thinking how nice it would be to be able to develop web apps with something like that. I suppose Silverlight would've been close, but it's dead these days. It looks like JavaFX is broadly similar to WPF over in Java-land, and it appears to work fairly well cross platform. It doesn't look native on any platform, but that isn't always a deal breaker. Using Intellij's non-native looking Swing UI on my MacBook doesn't bother me, though I appreciate that not everyone feels that way. I suppose this is my roundabout way of saying I'd love to have a decent cross platform .NET GUI framework. For anyone who wants this too, Avalonia looks like a good project to follow: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia It doesn't appear to support .NET Core yet, but last time I checked they expected to be able to relatively soon.