Tell me, is WPF relevant now, as a framework for writing desktop applications or is there something more stylish, fashionable and youthful?

I stumbled upon some Avalonia, which has been under development for a long time. As I understand it, is WPF killer? And as I understand it, this is the same WPF, but with splash and cross platform?

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  • "Avalonia is currently in beta". And you don’t forbid you to download and test it for what you specifically want to do. It happens that a completely stable project is such that you don’t want to use it voluntarily. WPF is still relevant for writing applications for Windows in C #, and not something third-party or even UWP. Another question - the very writing of applications for Windows is not so important. - SmInc
  • If you are writing only for Wndows and it is a desktop application, then WPF is exactly what you need - tym32167
  • In Avalonia, there is no grid and there are performance problems. But it is cross-platform, especially on netCore. - Monk
  • Now in Avalonia there is already a DataGrid. This is for those who will read in the future. - CasperSC

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