What does HackerNews think of microsoft-ui-xaml?

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Ignore all the talk about WinUI 3.0 being the future, and check the issues on the following repos:

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml

https://github.com/microsoft/WindowsAppSDK

https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt

https://github.com/microsoft/CsWinRT

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Also both in very active development:

https://github.com/dotnet/maui

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml (WinUI 3)

WinUI 3 includes all of what used to the the UWP controls and Renderer but "lifted and shifted" out of OS updates and also made accessible to non-UWP (primarily Win32) applications in Project Reunion (and techniques such as "XAML Islands").

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I am getting the impression the author is fighting yesterday’s war and on top of that has not been following what's going on in windows/.Net development lately. There has been a large-scale effort to open-source and port chunks of Windows and .Net Framework

WinForms 'the win95-style UI' https://github.com/dotnet/winforms

WPF 'the Vista-style UI' https://github.com/dotnet/wpf

WinUI3 'the Modern-style UI' https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml

Windows Communications Foundation https://github.com/dotnet/wcf

And more stuff I am not aware of. Judge as you wish, but if you are going to discuss the topic, they are important.