Current state of GUI's

[thedeemon via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 00:11:02 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On 09/03/2015 01:51 PM, motaito wrote:
>>
>> Yeah, it's a shame that the mono framework does not support 
>> WPF.

> I thought Mono did support that. Like in GitExtentions which 
> runs fine on Linux (well, aside from frequent crashing). Or is 
> WPF different from "win forms"?

Yes, it's totally different. WinForms is based on good old WinAPI 
with classical windows, dialogs, controls and GDI for drawing. 
WPF is based on a new engine over DirectX with lots of vector 
graphics, transformations and effects, everything 
GPU-accelerated. They remade everything - windows, controls and 
layouts are described declaratively in XAML format (XML-based), 
then everything is rendered with that new engine, even text is 
drawn differently (and in first versions looked differently). 
Mono never had and probably will never have WPF because this 
DirectX-based rendering engine is too hard to port.