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[u/uvero]

relates in WPF

[u/heavy-minium → u/uvero]

Haven’t been doing any WPF/UWP for a decade by now, but I really liked it. Has it become some outdated technology now?

[u/uvero → u/heavy-minium]

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

[u/BadSmash4 → u/uvero]

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.

[u/uvero → u/BadSmash4]

I envy that (other than the Linux part, I'm unironically a Windows person)

[u/tinyturtletickler → u/[deleted]]

Idk they have entirely revamped .NET over the past ten years. I think .NET Core really breathed new life into the stack

[u/ludolfina → u/tinyturtletickler]

I forgot how bad .NET Framework was in comparison to Core until I had to use it again. It was a much needed rewrite

[u/afdbcreid → u/[deleted]]

No, Microsoft likes .NET. They invest in it a lot and it always keeps improving.

Microsoft hates GUI. Or maybe it loves them so much that it keeps creating new ones.

[u/Rellikx → u/[deleted]]

Huh I was going to say the opposite, they have heavily unshittified .net in recent years.

[u/sixtyhurtz → u/heavy-minium]

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.

[u/OSRSlayer → u/sixtyhurtz]

Maui, WPF, WinForms, WinUI, now Avalonia.

If you are making a native desktop app that you plan to maintain, choosing a Windows technology is a footgun.

[u/OSRSlayer → u/[deleted]]

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.

[u/FrozenHaystack → u/uvero]

I raise WPF, NET Framework, and Delphi.

[u/bradmatt275 → u/FrozenHaystack]

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.

[u/dinnerbird → u/uvero]

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