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by fassssst 1539 days ago
DirectUI was a precursor to XAML and is being rapidly replaced by WinUI internally. It has janky markup and renders using non-GPU accelerated GDI.

WinUI 3 intentionally decoupled from the OS so app developers can support several versions of Windows while still using the latest GUI stuff, in the spirit of web apps.