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GaProgMan • today at 5:03 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

I agree. Except that WinForms has not been abandoned. In fact, it's one of the supported paths in the modern .NET stack.

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zerr • today at 6:57 AM

It lacks hardware acceleration.

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Dwedit • today at 5:47 AM

WinForms is a layer built on top of raw Win32. So it's not portable.

Even though Wine exists, Win32 calls can only be made from Win32 programs, not native Linux programs. So a WinForms app using the latest dotnet would need to run the Windows version of dotnet under Wine, and not use the Linux version of dotnet.

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