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by no_way 1575 days ago
If you are building cross platform app, there isn't much reasons to lock yourself in into platform specific framework, but just look at new Windows Terminal, it's great and it is using WinUI 3.
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It is very slow and does more draw calls than a modern video game, melting laptop batteries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxM8QmyZXtg

Same guy from this video did a series of videos rewriting the renderer in a weekend or so and going hundreds or thousands of times faster, with more advanced unicode/ligature/language support.

The text drawing code isn't using WinUI tho, they embed terminal canvas into something called "islands", so in this case it's not an UI frameworks fault. Besides I have used it on relatively old laptop and it was fine for me, but others experiences might differ.