I'm really enjoying the conversation around UI toolkits here. But I think we're all missing the elephant in the room and it's that we already had (have?) a superb toolkit and development model in the Visual Basic (later Windows Forms) era and nothing really manages to replicate that experience nowadays.
Microsoft destroyed it when they tried to push WPF and later shenanigans, only to realize it was a mistake years later.
I can't understand why we all, as a sector, agree about standards being a good thing, even if some are only de facto, and never agreed to maintain that really simple model.
I remember Mono tried to bring that to all platforms and everybody ignored/smashed them because "it's Microsoft".
I'm really enjoying the conversation around UI toolkits here. But I think we're all missing the elephant in the room and it's that we already had (have?) a superb toolkit and development model in the Visual Basic (later Windows Forms) era and nothing really manages to replicate that experience nowadays.
Microsoft destroyed it when they tried to push WPF and later shenanigans, only to realize it was a mistake years later.
I can't understand why we all, as a sector, agree about standards being a good thing, even if some are only de facto, and never agreed to maintain that really simple model.
I remember Mono tried to bring that to all platforms and everybody ignored/smashed them because "it's Microsoft".
Edit: typo