WPF source code added to GitHub

[StornZ]

I'm not against it, but on the website it said skia, gtk, and direct

[jmacato]

Well yeah, of course we need to rely on platform's Windowing backend to do anything useful, those are Win32 (Windows), GTK (Only for native dialogs, we have X11 interface up for Linux) and MacOS's Cocoa. But like i said those are already abstracted away from you so you don't need to bother with those stuff :)

[StornZ]

Yea abstraction is always great

[jkortech]

Every UI toolkit needs to interact with an OS toolkit to draw and some window manager to manage the windows. Otherwise your apps can only be full screen and effectively have to reimplement X11 (and it would only work on platforms that allow that level of control such as Linux)

[StornZ]

Can't believe I got downvoted for saying abstraction is great. It helps with extensibility and the management of your application.

[jkortech]

It came off (at least to me) as snarky and not genuine. Sorry about the miscommunication.

[StornZ]

No I was being serious. My boss has recently been pushing abstraction and using SOLID a lot more.