alt Hacker NewsThat's fair enough, but the dust has largely settled on dotnet core. The death of Silverlight was long ago. I think the only thing at risk of abandonment is the native UI situation, which is a mess.
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Ungh • yesterday at 6:18 PM
It's not quite that settled yet. Lots of third party libraries are getting abandoned pretty quickly. We are also stuck in purgatory due to a VSTO add-in which we can't rewrite in Office.js because it's nowhere near as powerful and there is no usable .Net Core integration.
Hard to say what's native in Windows anymore. I imagine Win32 APIs and more recently Windows App SDK?
The most supported UI frameworks from MS for Windows are WPF and WinUI 3. UWP is dead and WinForms (even though closest to something native to Windows) is probably going to end up in the land of forgotten (sorry nostalgic Windows devs, you have to face it eventually).
A "mess" is an understatement when the people who themselves develop Windows desktop apps have trouble explaining the landscape.