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Re:.NET Standard 2.1 by algorithmsRcool on Monday November 05, 2018 @02:22PM (#18385095)
Nope, it will be a windows only capability.

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I should add that the purpose of them adding this capability isn't to set up a new cross-platform UI suite. It is just to lure enterprise shops to .NET core by supporting more of their .NET Framework workloads

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Re:.NET Standard 2.1 by solarkraft on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @02:33AM (#18389084)
I'm still wondering whether it would be smart for them to port WPF or UWP to all platforms. They are already decoupling their services from Windows and a UI library would be quite a flagship for them.

Then again they'd also lose the Windows vendor lock-in, which might still be more valuable to them.

Then again they could sell their development toolchain and gain developer sympathy.

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Re:.NET Standard 2.1 by algorithmsRcool on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:36AM (#18392513)
Well, I think it is an engineering problem. WPF is basically cemented to DirectX which only exists on Windows.
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