WinUI, The modern native UI platform of Windows
Win32, Visual Basic, MFC, ActiveX, WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, UWP, WinUI. (I know these aren’t either/or alternatives, bear with me.)<p>I think Microsoft knows it needs (1) a way for developers to build apps that look like they belong in 2020 (2) where the frameworks won’t find themselves in the garbage within a few years. This “toolkit approach” seems to recognize that the runtime is a <i>separate</i> problem, so e.g. you can use Win32 + C++ + WinUI, or you can use C# + UWP + WinUI and get something reasonably consistent.<p>Maybe this is the time Microsoft gets it right. Who knows?