Are they planning on using .NET Core? With no UI?
Looks like Xamarin is building full cross-platform support via XAML
https://blog.xamarin.com/glimpse-future-xamarin-forms-3-0/
Avalonia seems like a straightforward reimplementation of WPF that is already usable.
https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia
DotVVM is working on electron support, and I work with it already. I like it.