I’ve been building a C# WinUI 3 app as a hobby project, since the app in question only makes sense as a Windows app (making cross platform capabilities pointles

I’ve been building a C# WinUI 3 app as a hobby project, since the app in question only makes sense as a Windows app (making cross platform capabilities pointless) and because I don’t care a shred for the convolutions of front end web dev that come along with an Electron project of any significant complexity. Getting started was annoying — certainly more so than developing a native Mac app with Xcode, which presents something closer to a “happy path” that gets you writing code with little to no boilerplate — but I finally got the ball rolling and have been fairly productive. There are some oddities though, like the collection type relied upon by list views not supporting sorting, requiring one to either wastefully allocate a new list, sort that, and assign that to the collection or implement sorting in a class extension. Very very strange stuff when you’re used to the base collection types in the language you’re working with supporting both observation and sorting. I’ve read that picking up the latest Windows UI framework is foolhardy, but I really didn’t care to theme WPF so it’s a closer match to current windows design and isn’t glaringly bright when using dark mode. And as noted, this is a hobby project, so whatever. If a rewrite becomes necessary it’s not the end of the world.