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WinForms is not windows-only, it has been implemented in Mono pretty long ago already. The major reason almost nobody develops WinForms apps on Linux is there i

WinForms is not windows-only, it has been implemented in Mono pretty long ago already. The major reason almost nobody develops WinForms apps on Linux is there is no visual WinForms designer (which is so good and intuitive in VisualStudio and that's a major WinForms strength) on Linux and given you are forced to code it manually other GUI toolkits can be more flexible, more powerful and look better. In fact I have developed some WinForms apps in VisualStudio on Windows specifically intending them to run on every of the 3 major OSes without modification.

floatboth 8y ago
Another major reason is that Mono's implementation of WinForms is: - quite buggy - quite ugly - does not support Wayland - does not support accessibility - is literally WinForms. It's a 90s era GUI toolkit.
- Tehdasi 8y ago
  > - is literally WinForms. It's a 90s era GUI toolkit. I fail to see how this is a problem, mostly because the job it was designed to do (build guis for desktop applications) has seen little innovation since the 90s.
  - ygra 8y ago
    You haven't taken a look at WPF then, I guess?