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Coming off of an extremely disappointing Build - I don’t think any news even made it to HN this year, and not a peep about desktop - I agree that the future is
by nxc18 5y ago
Coming off of an extremely disappointing Build - I don’t think any news even made it to HN this year, and not a peep about desktop - I agree that the future is unclear.
WinUI is the future, but they’ve admitted it will be years before it reaches the maturity of UWP, which is embarrassingly bad even 5 years on.
WPF, in my opinion, is the best choice for “native” windows apps. The actual best choice is Electron, as most teams doing new work at MS have noticed.
WPF, for native, hits the sweet spot of supporting newer technology (high DPI), having decent performance, and being well implemented; it has been solid for at least 10 years now. Also easy to style and theme, similar in concept to web, but just more annoying.
- thrower123 5y agoI was too busy this week to watch any of the Build stuff, but it is surprising how it's basically just been crickets. I can't remember a year with less buzz about anything that Microsoft has queued up...
- pjmlp 5y agoAfter being burned with their C++/WinRT reboot without tooling matching C++/CX after 4 years in the works, and the whole situation as you describe, I have decided to eat my UWP hat and just focus on WPF/Win32 in what concerns Windows desktop applications. The migration wizard for .NET apps was a CLI script, really? In the land of "Developers, Developers,.." and GUI wizards. Maybe if enough of us keep doubling down on Forms/WPF/Win32 and ignore the whole WinUI/Reunion reboot, they finally understand want we really want for desktop Windows.