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> XAML, WPF, UWP, silverlight Aka bunch of mediocre walled garden tech. I'd much prefer QT You seem to suggest that it would be a good thing for everyone for
by nsonha 5y ago
> XAML, WPF, UWP, silverlight
Aka bunch of mediocre walled garden tech. I'd much prefer QT
You seem to suggest that it would be a good thing for everyone for those thing to succeed? The only people who benefit from those are MS and their developer base.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoI'd argue the users benefit from having something that integrates tightly with the OS rather than an application that targets the lowest common denominator of all platforms. Qt applications always feel a bit shitty to me, I only use them if there is no alternative.
- nsonha 5y agothe users benefit by having an app at least. It's unlikely that apps written in the walled garden will be ported to other OSes. If they make those apps cross platform somehow, it would be the lowest common denominator in other OSes.
- tonyedgecombe 5y agoWindows isn't a walled garden. It's a bit shitty but anybody can write and distribute software for Windows.
- nsonha 5y agoI don't know if you mean the same thing but I feel it's KDE that's shitty. When I played around with QT Creator on Windows it seemed great
- spixy 5y ago> walled garden https://github.com/dotnet/wpf https://github.com/dotnet/wpf