Porting the GUI over alongside the rest is very important, otherwise it is no more multi-platform than .NET.
Had Microsoft gone all in with their framework and not half arsed it with .NET Core, they would have market dominance right now, with people being able to rapidly prototype and build desktop applications with consistent GUI forms functionality. We might have even seen Linux desktop shells and window managers written with it.
Apple in their ignorance are making a huge blunder because any native GUI apps which “just work” when packaged for multiple platforms would add to Apple’s potential for dominance, especially if theirs is the “native” solution in that regard. Given Microsoft are far far behind on ARM, now is the perfect time to dethrone them over the next 5-10 years.
In Linux-land, developers will take whatever good code works. Distros have never had a consistent, native toolkit (Qt is as close as they have ever had) and will fall in line with whatever works and people want to code for.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
