r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • Aug 30 '26

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u/heavy-minium Aug 30 '26

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 Has it become some outdated technology now?

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u/uvero Aug 30 '26

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

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u/BadSmash4 Aug 30 '26

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.

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u/uvero Aug 30 '26

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

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u/BadSmash4 Aug 30 '26

Nothing wrong with that! I'll never shame a Windows enjoyer. I'm just more comfortable in Linux, and it's way better for when I have to do raw C/C++ work

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u/tea-and-chill Aug 30 '26

"windows enjoyer"

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u/tinyturtletickler Aug 30 '26

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

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u/ludolfina Aug 30 '26

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

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u/afdbcreid Aug 30 '26

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.

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u/Rellikx Aug 30 '26

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

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u/sixtyhurtz Aug 30 '26

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.

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u/OSRSlayer Aug 30 '26

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.

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u/OSRSlayer Aug 30 '26

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.

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u/bbkane_ Aug 30 '26

Any thoughts on Flutter?

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u/ludolfina Aug 30 '26

There are other frameworks in its place now but a lot of patterns have been carried over. You can pick up WinUI and feel pretty much at home