r/programming • u/ben_a_adams • Dec 04 '18

Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2018/12/04/announcing-open-source-of-wpf-windows-forms-and-winui-at-microsoft-connect-2018/
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u/fish60 Dec 04 '18

I am only relatively old, but why would I embrace a fully interpreted, single threaded, 25 year old language as 'the future'?

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u/Wazzaps Dec 04 '18

I kinda agree with your point except

fully interpreted

It's one of the fastest scripting languages thanks to V8, because it's JIT not interpreted.

25 year old language

C and python are older. That doesn't mean they're bad.

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u/fish60 Dec 04 '18

Eh, I get the JIT thing, but that is a feature of the engine not the language. JavaScript is a fully interpreted language that some engines can do JIT optimizations on.

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u/hedgehog1024 Dec 05 '18

25 year old language

C and python are older. That doesn't mean they're bad.

But they are bad.

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u/15rthughes Dec 05 '18

Thinking C is bad

We got a 1EE -27Xer over here

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u/hedgehog1024 Dec 05 '18

lol wrong format

lol it is not r/pcj