[tbrownaw]

I've worked some with both WinForms and WPF, and so far I kinda like XAML. And is you're not only working in the windows world, I hear there's a similar-in-spirit JavaScript/HTML framework being used for "new hotness" style applications. Called "electron" or something like that I think?

[wildpeaks]

In short, Electron is a tool for running Node scripts in a real DOM in Chromium (so unlike PhantomJS, it can run things like WebGL).

You can also bundle it to generate distributable desktop applications (e.g. Visual Studio Code, Atom, or the desktop Slack client).

[TeMPOraL]

Electron is that thing that bundles the whole web browser with your application so that you can write your usual web code and have it look like a desktop app.