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> I really don't see any massive barrier to creating a cross-platform, desktop-only GUI framework

Developer adoption is a big one. Why should I trust your NewGui to still be updated and improved 5 years from now?

Even Microsoft has a whole graveyard of dead GUI frameworks (WinForms anyone?)

Hah, WinForms is still my go-to for quick Windows GUIs. Perhaps is WPF used CSS instead of god awful XML boilerplate overrides for styling I might use that.

Same here! Hard to match WinForms productivity for small apps, especially if you cut your teeth in the 90's VB era. And you can push WinForms really far with the fancy controls in the Syncfusion Community License.

Winforms is absolubtely my go-to as well after using it briefly at work for a project around 2015. It was old then, but I really liked the way it worked, it was sensible and c# is always easy compared to c++

I doubt I ever release mine, if I even complete it. For companies that can manage this, there's no reason why they couldn't obtain adoption. Just look at Electron, Flutter, VS Code, etc.

Microsoft is one of the examples of what not to do. They have made great strides with .NET Core and now .NET 6+, but I have no idea why they're doing what they're doing in the GUI scene.

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