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Win32 is what I would call native, and MFC/WinForms are wrappers around that. So in technical sense, WinUI is as native as Qt/wxWidgets. Just my preference on

Win32 is what I would call native, and MFC/WinForms are wrappers around that. So in technical sense, WinUI is as native as Qt/wxWidgets. Just my preference on terminology, rather than anything against WinUI (I've been developing a WinUI app).

fassssst 5y ago
None of that Win32 UI stuff is being updated anymore so it’s more “classic” than “native.”
- marwis 5y ago
  One could say both are native Windows UI toolkits. Kind of similar to when Apple shipped Carbon and Cocoa.