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Comment by drzzhan | Hacker News Reader

C# is so painful to find what I want. Last time I want to write a quick GUI, I gave up and go to youtube because they are simply easier.

WinForms is the easiest gui platform I've ever used.

Still supported in .net 8. Windows only though.

Beyond that, I have not bothered.

I have the opposite experience, I've found the MSDN docs for dotnet are very helpful both at the conceptual and implementation level.

GUI might be special a case because there are so many flavors of it, and half of them are abandoned dead-ends.

Was that something specific you had trouble with? You can v. quickly start with e.g.

  dotnet new --install Avalonia.Templates
  dotnet new avalonia.app
  dotnet run

Will work on any platform.