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I really wish they would figure out of cross platform solution for desktop applications. I know their are libraries out there now, but Microsoft should really help with the effort. Maybe Xamarin.Forms? Idk.

Regardless, I'm working on a way to build Qt/Qmp apps with .NET Core.

https://github.com/pauldotknopf/net-core-qml

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There has been active public development on ReactXP [1] for months now. It supposedly works with React-Native and React-Native-[Windows|macos].

Considering the amount of work being done in public on React-Native-Windows [2], it looks like this is turning into one of their (intended or not) version of cross-platform (using web technologies) dev stack.

[1] https://github.com/Microsoft/reactxp [2] https://github.com/Microsoft/react-native-windows

AvaloniaUI is essentially cross-platform WPF for .NET Core. It recently entered its beta phase.

http://avaloniaui.net/

To be clear:

* On top of Win32 and Direct2D for Windows.

* On top of GTK3 and Skia for Linux.

* On top of MonoMac (and Skia?) for macOS.

* Experimental support for Android.

* Experimental support for iOS.

One can see Avalon Studio as a sort of proof of concept, an Avalonia-based IDE for C#, C++, and Core2D development. https://github.com/VitalElement/AvalonStudio

Silverlight worked (on Mac and Windows).

Crossplatform does NOT mean Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox.

Silverlight or Moonlight never worked for me on Linux desktop.

Windows, Windows Phone and Xbox do not use exactly the same OS, or expected set always present hardware, thus they are by definition not the same platform.

Cross platform does not mean it works in all OS ever written.

It worked fine on Mac so I presume that much of the work was done to make it work on other UNIX systems.

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