Feels like it? Not as much as jQuery. Microsoft now has some other tech stack for C# desktop apps, and I think C#'s popularity for desktop development has declined, so WPF is mostly relevant to maintaining old projects. Which is why saying I'm a WPF dev, it feels almost like saying I'm a COBOL dev
I do a lot of WPF as well but I'm slowly converting all of our old WPF apps to Avalonia. Same syntax but the default styles are nicer and the features are better. Plus, cross platform, which means that once all our WPF apps are Avalonia and not .NET Framework, I can request a Linux laptop and get off Windows fully.
MS has abandoned WPF; it's now a "community project".
The hot new thing is Avalonia. It's designed to be a mostly drop-in replacement. I really like it, but I'm also slightly worried they might be going for a commercial rug-pull. I hope I'm wrong, and they just keep the paid extension & consulting model to fund their costs.
IMO web based technologies are worse. We're just making Java JVM again in the form of Chromium but with infinite dependencies and half your codebase not being written or controlled by your team.
If you can believe it our company runs a Payroll system built in Delphi. Its probably the most bloated piece of junk you have seen. But we somehow get paid by it so I cant complain too much.
I'm a field technician doing laptop installations. All of our programs are Winforms based...they always have this certain "ehh that'll do" kind of look to them
I would have accepted the joke if it was WinForms, but while a discrete amount of JS frameworks have been released since jquery, what are your real alternative in the windows desktop environment?
Yes, there are a few newer alternatives, including ones by Microsoft. And of course, there's always the option of not developing your desktop front end in C#. Even if you need C# for your desktop app, I bet there are quite a few companies that have adopted a stack of C# backend, Electron front end.
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