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Which is too bad, because there’s still no easy, drag and drop way to create desktop apps on other platforms that just work.

• numlock86 7y ago
  The drag and drop designer part of VS is not even what I think is cool about WPF. To me it's the architecture and the whole API. It's easy to make clean enterprise size applications with good separation of concerns (I've been a developer in the C#/WPF field for around 5 years). For other platforms - and Windows as well - the closest I know is Qt, including the drag and drop part btw. ;)
  • pknopf 7y ago
    > the closest I know is Qt Which you can use .NET Core with! https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet
  • babypuncher 7y ago
    This always surprises me whenever I look into cross-platform GUI toolkits. The closest is Qt as you mentioned. What really gets me is GTK's continued popularity on Linux when Qt is so much easier to develop with.
    • numlock86 7y ago
      Probably a side effect from the popularity of Ubuntu which - since they dropped Unity - go still strong with GTK as they use Gnome now out of the box. And Ubuntu is like the de facto standard desktop distribution.
    • tracker1 7y ago
      Probably a hold over from Trolltech's original license for Qt. Also, GPL is a non-starter for a LOT of companies.
• miguelrochefort 7y ago
  You can run UWP apps on all platforms using the Uno Platform. https://platform.uno https://platform.uno
• earenndil 7y ago
  What about java?
  • numlock86 7y ago
    Jokes aside, license issues are the first that come to mind.
    • apta 7y ago
      What license issues? OpenJDK is 100% free and open, and there are several OpenJDK providers that you can download it from.
• edwinyzh 7y ago
  How about Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-ide.org/ https://www.lazarus-ide.org/)? Drag and drop to build the GUI, compile natively to Windows, Linux and MacOS.