right now? Two words: Composition API. It's fairly new addition but they've started integrating UWP with hardware accelerated effects (through abstraction of DirectX). Means that finally you can run animations butterly smooth with 60 fps and do more bitmap-based effects on ui elements.
The downside with UWP is that it lives in the runtime sandbox so it's limited in how it can interact with the os (for good and bad). On the plus side there's some really nice integration with OS notifications, app services, handover and stuff like that. I really hope the composition stuff comes to WPF however
The downside with UWP is that it lives in the runtime sandbox so it's limited in how it can interact with the os (for good and bad). On the plus side there's some really nice integration with OS notifications, app services, handover and stuff like that. I really hope the composition stuff comes to WPF however