Microsoft open-sourced Windows Forms, WinUI and WPF

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1 hour ago, LAwLz said:

On top of that, a lot of the underlying things are still closed source. For example WPF uses DirectX for rendering. So while WPF might be open source, it won't have anything to hook into on GNU/Linux unless DirectX is supported too.

 

I think the biggest win here is that now we might get WPF implemented in mono. Previously they didn't implement that because it was deemed too large of a project, and there wasn't much interest in it from developers to begin with.

They might also be able to clean up some WinForms bugs.

 

 

It's nice that they have open sourced it, but their policies are still "problematic" and I think these types of announcements lead people to believe things like "soon we'll have Windows programs running natively on GNU/Linux". Microsoft still has a very large and thick wall preventing that from happening anytime soon, and I doubt they will ever tear it down. Doesn't make sense from a business perspective.

Well for wine compatibility it could actually be really better, directx translation to opengl is already present and also I guess that mono will take its time to at least implement new features from this situation 

I mean, maybe you couldn't develop native applications but at least run them through wine with more features 

[GoodBytes]

3 hours ago, firelighter487 said:

chromium right? and that's not just an engine, it's a full browser...

If I were to say Blink, The majority would know anything. I explain more in detail in the news thread. You should read more than the title.

[Doobeedoo]

Are we going to see open-source Windows hehe 

[williamcll]

Maybe fix all the bugs in the OS first?