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> Also, fool me once... To be fair, their past offerings still work fine, they're just in maintenance mode. Which is exactly what a lot of people want- they st

• Ididntdothis 7y ago
  You also need a framework that stays up to date. As of now they have a whole list of frameworks in maintenance but nothing that stays cutting edge. At least we need a clear upgrade path which doesn't exist.
  • leetcrew 7y ago
    what do you mean by "stays cutting edge"? do you expect existing code to get UI update for free? I would love to have that natively, but I'm not sure how realistic it is. I work on an application that targets both windows and mac. we have windows UI code that was written ten years ago that still works and looks more or less okay. on the other hand, every year we have to deal with breaking changes and new bugs from framework updates on the mac side.
    • monocasa 7y ago
      I expect support for new stuff like touch events, hidpi, etc. even if it takes some code changes on my side to use. It's not like what's expected out of desktop GUIs have been completely static over this time frame.
    • Ididntdothis 7y ago
      I would like the framework to stay up to date with new features. With every .NET framework so far after a few years you stop getting any updates and all new development happens on the new platform. This gets really tiring after a while.