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Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform app dream is dead and buried
- baybal2 7y agoI really hope WPF will die along with it, and it will finally force MS to think of making a proper toolkit.
- pjmlp 7y agoIt is called WinUI, basically UWP outside of the store.
- msie 7y agoNow Apple is making a similar mistake with Marzipan. If indeed Mac SDK development falls by the wayside in favor of iOS.
- _bxg1 7y agoThe big difference being they already have a successful phone/tablet platform, so the prospect holds a lot more potential value for them. Microsoft was trying to bootstrap everything at once, and UWP didn't become a truly bad idea until Windows Phone itself was dead.
- pjmlp 7y agoUWP is here to stay, regardless of the store. Win32 is in maintenance mode since Windows 7, all new APIs are based on UWP, including most of what was shown at BUILD 2019.
- _bxg1 7y agoDid you even read the article? "new APIs" != "maintenance mode"
- pjmlp 7y agoThose new APIs are based on UWP, and being called WinUI, basically Microsoft has been decoupling UWP from the store. They still are the same COM based APIs from UWP, just now fully rewritten in C++, because they also want the buy-in from C++ devs attached to MFC. The article authors should spend some time watching BUILD 2019. I am yet to find someone from anti-UWP crowd that actually grasps what UWP is all about.
- pjmlp 7y agoActually not, https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/docs/roadmap.md https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/blob/master/d... React Native for Windows is being ported from C# into WinUI/C++. https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-windows Plus these guys should spend more time at BUILD and MSDN. All major Windows 10 APIs are UWP only, even if the store is gone, UWP is here to stay.
- kerng 7y agoThe store is there and remains, as are the apps and APIs, but now one can also publish traditional Win32 apps. Which is awesome! UWP APIs nor apps are dead nor buried - very poor journalism.
- WorldMaker 7y agoRight, the worlds have merged/blended together finally. You can have every type of Win32 app in the Store. You can have UWP apps entirely outside of the Store. You can have UWP components inside of Win32 apps, in or out of the Store. UWP lives on, it just is no longer a walled garden that doesn't understand Win32.
- pjmlp 7y agoIt feels like that they just don't bother to understand and use any rumor as means to claim victory over the store's death.
- WorldMaker 7y agoI think a lot of the misunderstanding is willful. The "you'll take Win32 out of my cold dead hands" crowd is a fascinating one. Almost don't want to correct some of them because they seem so happy to celebrate any notion that UWP is dead, when the reality is that Win32 has been Weekend at Bernie's for years now and the dreams of UWP are more alive than ever, it's just getting much better at also propping up Bernie and pretending the Win32 corpse is still moving, so that the party keeps raving along.