To be fair. Creating a good cross UI framework is hard. Winforms wouldn’t cross ... | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		philliphaydon on July 25, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Case for C# and .NET To be fair. Creating a good cross UI framework is hard. Winforms wouldn’t cross over to OS X / linux. WPF was too heavily tied to Windows. Silver light was a compeditor to flash and both of those died. Now we are up to Maui and Avalion? Blazor is more silverlight replacement imo.

kgeist on July 25, 2022 [–]

Also, Winforms and WPF were designed before Microsoft embraced Linux and started making .NET truly cross-platform. Starting over with a new cross-platform UI framework sounds like a reasonable thing to do.

Consider applying for YC's Winter 2026 batch! Applications are open till Nov 10
Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact