Conceptually they all offered a way to write managed-language, write-once desktop applications. React Native and Electron carry the torch of this style of deve

Conceptually they all offered a way to write managed-language, write-once desktop applications. React Native and Electron carry the torch of this style of development now and both seem to be gaining traction in a way their predecessors couldn't. I like both, but can't help thinking that a UI framework designed as a UI framework would have served us better than CSS and the DOM in the long run. Put simply: Silverlight/WPF and C# could have been a much better Electron and TypeScript if the runtime were implemented in a less myopic way.