Confusingly WinUI 3 comprises not only a further updated version of the WinUI controls library, but the entire UI framework underneath it including the layout and composition layers, all of which were forked from their equivalents in UWP XAML and "lifted" out of the Windows codebase. So it's not only a newer thing but a different category of thing than what WinUI 1 and 2 were ...
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WinUI 1 was a controls library for UWP that was used internally within the Windows division at Microsoft on some of the built-in apps in Windows 10 for a while. It was never released to the public or even discussed publicly (prior to the public release of WinUI 2) AFAIK, so it's no surprise you didn't know about it.
WinUI 2 was an updated version of that controls library which was released publicly as an open source project.
"In an interview from the late 1970s, Glushkov spoke about a newly developed technology that could record the biocurrents of the human brain. He believed it would enable the creation of a new, cybernetic iteration of the human being, thus paving the way for human immortality. Together with renowned surgeon Mykola Amosov, he developed the discipline of biocybernetics."
https://www.e-flux.com/journal/82/134024/the-great-accelerator/
Fun connections.
"Stereotype" is a printer's term. Moveable type is expensive. You don't want to keep it tied up longer than needed, so you make a mould from the set type and cast a plate from that.
The "stereotype" is the mould.
A "cliché" is what the French called plate made from that mould, it's onomatopoeia from the sound of removing the plate from the mould.
"Boilerplate" is widely repeated text from the round stereotype castings of newspaper columns ready to throw on a drum press.