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I believe that with the new XAML Desktop initiative, we finally will get access to a broader Universal XAML dialect wich probably will be very based on the UWP

I believe that with the new XAML Desktop initiative, we finally will get access to a broader Universal XAML dialect wich probably will be very based on the UWP XAML, but will be able to run outside the UWP AppModel and restrictions. If you see that along with the new .NET 5 perspective that will include even WebAssembly, maybe even SVG GUI on the Browser, we have a chance to finally have a decent cross-platform GUI and powerful programming languages, that I see as curated result of this decade of javaScript experiences. We will have the best of the two worlds, the Web and Native, the dynamic and typed, avaliable. All that said, I think that we are in good company also having the UNO Platform community folks, that I see as a garantee that all this will happen in a way that envolves the community needs. https://platform.uno/ https://platform.uno/

xlang 7y ago
used to be mainly mfc programmer doing large client/server lob app suites; after dotnet, worked around five years with c# and like it (reminded me borland delphi from the college) but local .net projects keep under-delivering and growing more expensive than previous tech; so i keep being called instead to update or support mfc projects... using atl/wtl (and later powerbasic instead of vb6 to host activex). The last few years sometimes for dynamic/customized/personalized corner case uis have been using fast AXML provided by codejock label or using css+html by terra informatica HTMLayOut/Sciter Microsoft lost a lots of local enterprise lob custom apps with the always evolving dotnet platform and heavy resource requirements, lighter alternatives won their market