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Re:.NET 5 by numlock86 on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:37PM (#19841799)
The drag and drop designer part of VS is not even what I think is cool about WPF. To me it's the architecture and the whole API. It's easy to make clean enterprise size applications with good separation of concerns (I've been a developer in the C#/WPF field for around 5 years). For other platforms - and Windows as well - the closest I know is Qt, including the drag and drop part btw. ;)
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Re:.NET 5 by pknopf on Monday May 06, 2019 @01:49PM (#19841915)
> the closest I know is Qt

Which you can use .NET Core with!

https://github.com/qmlnet/qmlnet

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Re:.NET 5 by babypuncher on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:27PM (#19844065)
This always surprises me whenever I look into cross-platform GUI toolkits. The closest is Qt as you mentioned. What really gets me is GTK's continued popularity on Linux when Qt is so much easier to develop with.
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Re:.NET 5 by tracker1 on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:39PM (#19844656)
Probably a hold over from Trolltech's original license for Qt. Also, GPL is a non-starter for a LOT of companies.
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Re:.NET 5 by numlock86 on Monday May 06, 2019 @06:25PM (#19844548)
Probably a side effect from the popularity of Ubuntu which - since they dropped Unity - go still strong with GTK as they use Gnome now out of the box. And Ubuntu is like the de facto standard desktop distribution.
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