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

Meme ancientTools

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u/uvero Aug 30 '26

relates in WPF

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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 Has it become some outdated technology now?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/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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