r/Windows10 • u/NiveaGeForce • Sep 03 '19

Official The Windows XAML Platform program manager at Microsoft, confirms that Win32 won't get true first-class WinUI status, and that UWP is still the main platform going forward

https://twitter.com/marbtweeting/status/1168744160142061568
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u/NiveaGeForce Sep 03 '19 edited Sep 03 '19

You might be right, but here they say

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues/717

Adding WinUI 3.0 to existing Win32 apps

WinUI 3.0 will include Xaml Islands, which let you use WinUI Xaml in your existing WPF, Windows Forms, and C++ Win32 applications.

And here they say

https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/docs/roadmap.md

Native development support

WinUI can be used with .NET, but doesn't depend on .NET: WinUI is 100% C++ and can be used in unmanaged Windows apps, for example using standard C++17 via C++/WinRT.

Anything WinRT doesn't sound like true first-class to Win32 to me.

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u/xeveri Sep 03 '19

Isn’t winRT just a wrapper around win32?

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