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Sad to see .NET core not supported (yet). I thought all new development was supposed to target .NET core and now this ? Come on Microsoft, you can do better (especially that NET 5 is coming in November)!

I wonder if WinUI is truly more performant than Winforms. Winforms hooks directly into WINAPI. How can you be faster than that ?

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WinUI 3 supports .NET 5 : https://youtu.be/tasbSc3771A?t=186

It says here https://docs.microsoft.com/pl-pl/uwp/toolkits/winui3/ that .NET core is not supported, but maybe they'll fix it by Nov.

At this point it should be a multi-platform toolkit running on .NET Core. I don't think many devs will be excited about WinUI.

Microsoft wants to make a profit, not to excite many devs. How would they profit from cross-platform GUI toolkit?

Well, I'd imagine the logic would be the same as it's been with things like vscode -- winning over developer mindshare and goodwill has a lot of immaterial benefits.

They aren’t going to profit from WinUI either. Not many devs will jump on it.

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