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> Winforms (dead, ugly) Dead? Nonsense. WinForms is the most used technology/framework in 2021 for desktop GUI applications according to jetbrains. https://ww
by p1peridine 5y ago
> Winforms (dead, ugly)
Dead? Nonsense. WinForms is the most used technology/framework in 2021 for desktop GUI applications according to jetbrains.
https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/csharp/ https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/csharp/
Also: https://blog.submain.com/death-winforms-greatly-exaggerated/ https://blog.submain.com/death-winforms-greatly-exaggerated/
- georgemcbay 5y agoDead and ugly are both kind of vague terms open for debate so I'm not arguing your main point here (and I'm not the person you responded to) ... ... but as someone who did a lot of Win32/UI App programming back in the late 1990s and early 2000s (up to and including early WinForms), I recently looked through the landscape of available UI toolkits and can confirm that as someone who hasn't been keeping up with this stuff for years its INCREDIBLY confusing as to what technology you should build new projects on looking through the graveyard of half abandoned aborted starts Microsoft seems to have made from back then until now, with almost everything being officially deprecated or early access/unfinished. The fact that WinForms might still be the best solution for starting a new project on is more of a condemnation of Microsoft's combined efforts in this area than it is something to be celebrated, IMO.
- formerly_proven 5y agoImagine the confusion of someone frozen in cryo around 2006 waking up now: Wait, that C# wrapper for Win32 is the recommended MS GUI framework? What went wrong?!
- oneplane 5y agoNot only that, but wrapping a deprecated framework at that... and then all the stuff that came in between. It's almost as if we're back at square one.