"I'm not really sure what WPFs future is. It's great technology, but the desktop is increasingly niche." This scares me as someone who likes the idea of WPF, c

"I'm not really sure what WPFs future is. It's great technology, but the desktop is increasingly niche." This scares me as someone who likes the idea of WPF, considering alternatives are javafx (not open either, but not being actively updated), and for, only recently adobe flex. What do one use when they want to make a desktop app with decent ux that needs to talk to hardware? Go back to using java/swing? Native client (hah!)? Flex only started to support native processes a few months ago. Ideally I'd love to see the ideas behind WPF open up a bit if support diminishes.