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It would have been great if it allowed to make .NET Desktop apps for macOS and Linux, in addition to Windows.

We're trying to do that over at https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia if you're interested. Doesn't have MS (or any other company's) backing, and is still in beta, but quite usable for creating x-plat apps. You can see some projects built on it here https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia/wiki/Projects-that-ar...

I was surprised when the PowerShell team announced that Out-GridView made a reappearance in PowerShell Core, built with Avalonia. So at least someone at Microsoft took notice.

I'm really rooting for the project to gain some support. Right now I'd love to try porting our custom UI component at work to Avalonia, just to try it out. But that's time not well invested in something with little backing and potentially few customers for us.

Announcement here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/powershell/out-gridview-retur...

Scott Hunter today presented a Blazor based Electron App in the .NET 5 timespan.

I am not the biggest fan of HTML, but considering the maturity of that ecosystem, design tools and knowledge among designers, that could be a very valid move.

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