[merb]

> Next stop, making UWP crossplatform :))

they do not need. they have xaml over xamarin.forms, which supports all major platforms (including desktopn and mobile) it still says that its in preview however the only things that did not work well is when you need some kind of file interaction with the os, you need to create native views for all your OSs (i.e. NSFilePicker, OpenFileDialog, etc..) since there is no Xamarin.Forms widget for that. besides that it is already really mature.

[Mertax]

Xamarin.Forms has to manage a lot of friction interfacing with the native UI controls. It's both an advantage and a disadvantage to it's approach. It has to conform to the common denominator of the native platforms, but gets to leverage the native look and feel. But this seems much harder to maintain long term. It would actually make sense if they created a XAML platform (like cross-platform UWP) that used its own rendering stack (similar to Flutter's approach) that wasn't beholden to the design decisions of an externally developed platform and having to reconcile the differences between different platform paradigms.