WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
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WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
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Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
#2Wow, they are actually starting to care about quality. Color me surprised.
Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
#3I seriously hope Microsoft consolidates all their Windows app dev on WinUI and invests heavily in making it great.
I also wish that they’d make WinUI work on macOS as well similar to Avalonia, but I think they probably won’t.
Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
#4Wow, they are actually starting to care about quality. Color me surprised.
Don't worry, once enough people come back, they'll roll back in the ads and the intrusive performance-killing features and the cycle will repeat all over again
Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
#5Wow, they are actually starting to care about quality. Color me surprised.
Don't worry, once enough people come back, they'll roll back in the ads and the intrusive performance-killing features and the cycle will repeat all over again
Microsoft has long had a tick tock cycle for Windows.
98: great. ME: bad. XP: great. Vista: bad. 7: great. 8: bad. 10: great. 11: bad
Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
#6I seriously hope Microsoft consolidates all their Windows app dev on WinUI and invests heavily in making it great. I also wish that they’d make WinUI work on macOS as well similar to Avalonia, but I think they probably won’t.
There's now an Avalonia back-end for .NET MAUI in preview, so they are making an effort on that cross-platform front too.
Link: https://avaloniaui.net/blog/maui-avalonia-preview-1
Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
#7Wow, they are actually starting to care about quality. Color me surprised.
Anyone who tried to do serious native windows dev has been burnt so often by Microsoft. I really wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt with WinUI 3 but I really cannot anymore. Until proven otherwise I expect absolutely nothing to improve meaningfully. It’s extremely sad for those of us who were dumb enough to think Microsoft take on modern GUI would be interesting to follow closely, we are in 2026 and WPF is still the way to go IMHO.
Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
#8Wow, they are actually starting to care about quality. Color me surprised.
Anyone who tried to do serious native windows dev has been burnt so often by Microsoft. I really wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt with WinUI 3 but I really cannot anymore. Until proven otherwise I expect absolutely nothing to improve meaningfully. It’s extremely sad for those of us who were dumb enough to think Microsoft take on modern GUI would be interesting to follow closely, we are in 2026 and WPF is…
> we are in 2026 and WPF is still the way to go IMHO.
Why not Avalonia? It's not Microsoft but it is a spiritual successor to WPF, cross-platform, and open source.
Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't worry, once enough people come back, they'll roll back in the ads and the intrusive performance-killing features and the cycle will repeat all over again
Microsoft has long had a tick tock cycle for Windows. 98: great. ME: bad. XP: great. Vista: bad. 7: great. 8: bad. 10: great. 11: bad
Maybe “great” is going a bit far for some of those. “Not bad” vs “bad” seems more realistic.
Re: WinUI 3 Performance: A Leap Forward
#10Wow, they are actually starting to care about quality. Color me surprised.
Anyone who tried to do serious native windows dev has been burnt so often by Microsoft. I really wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt with WinUI 3 but I really cannot anymore. Until proven otherwise I expect absolutely nothing to improve meaningfully. It’s extremely sad for those of us who were dumb enough to think Microsoft take on modern GUI would be interesting to follow closely, we are in 2026 and WPF is…
Yep, it's 2026 and I'm still 8 hours a day in win32.