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As someone desperately fighting to keep their company's main product to stay using a native desktop UI, Microsoft makes it real hard. WinUI3 hasn't even officially launched and it already feels like it's on life support. QT is good, but even qt seems to be starting to use a web renderer.


Qt either Widgets or Quick definitely does not use a web renderer


"WinUI3 hasn't even officially launched"

? It officially launched with version 1.0 and it's now on 1.6?


I can't really speak to the differences but

> At this time, there are two generations of WinUI: WinUI 2 for UWP and WinUI in the Windows App SDK (WinUI 3).

> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/apps/winui/


Hence why OP was specifically talking about WinUI 3 (which is indeed at version 1.6.1 as of right now).


Windows App SDK seems to be at 1.6.1, which includes WinUI 3.


It's really something I know nothing about so I googled WinUI3 and the 3 first results are microsoft website and github, and the next two are "is winui3 dead ?" and "Oh winui3 is really" dead. So it doesn't inspire confidence :)


I suppose it was incorrect of me to say it hasn't "officially" launched then. But one would certainly seem to get that impression, considering it's missing major features (data table support?) isn't anywhere near feature parity with either WPF or winforms, and doesn't even have a visual editor (which should be table stakes for a modern 1.0 release from a company as large as Microsoft).




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