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Why? UWP is the future of application development on Windows. That's like saying Cocoa will never be a success. Also if you can make UWP apps, you can make Xama
by eberkund 9y ago
Why? UWP is the future of application development on Windows. That's like saying Cocoa will never be a success. Also if you can make UWP apps, you can make Xamarin apps which are cross platform (for mobile at least).
- donblas33 9y agoXamarin.Forms support for macOS is in preview: https://blog.xamarin.com/preview-bringing-macos-to-xamarin-forms/ https://blog.xamarin.com/preview-bringing-macos-to-xamarin-f...
- simooooo 9y agoIt would be cool to have that display engine on other platforms though..
- flukus 9y agoUWP doesn't allow enough system access to ever be the future of Windows. At best it's the future of a locked down toy version of windows.
- ThrowawayR2 9y ago> UWP doesn't allow enough system access to ever be the future of Windows. That's kind of the point. Most apps don't need unfettered system access and many (most?) app authors aren't capable of writing an app that's secure anyway; one of the biggest attack vectors today is through apps.
- flukus 9y agoUWP won't replace win32 until it can handle all apps, not just most apps.