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One point I am going to harp on > 8. Everything Is Becoming a Web App Microsoft has done such a terrible job making a clear way for devs to make windows app w
by threesevenths 3y ago
One point I am going to harp on
> 8. Everything Is Becoming a Web App
Microsoft has done such a terrible job making a clear way for devs to make windows app with native UI. Should I use Win32 legacy? How about WinForms? Can I have device independent sizing in WPF? Should I use the dumpster fire that’s Maui? Can I get away with the limitations of WinUI?
I find the state of native development a real pain point in 2023 and Microsoft’s internal infighting is doing nothing to improve the situation.
- m_fayer 3y agoI wish we’d all settle on Avalonia and pretend whatever Microsoft is pushing this year is just not happening.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoI don't think that's such a big issue nowadays because which devs shops enter the market to make money by making new Windows GUI apps nowadays, in order to be confused on which GUI libs they should start with? Not that many. I don't see anyone wanting to write Windows-native apps anymore. App development moved to the web. Windows apps are mostly all legacy stuff like Notepad++ or $CORPORATE_WARE written in the same libs from 20 years ago, or cross-platform stuff written in QT or Electron.
- Shadowed_ 3y agoI want to write Windows native apps (and I do).
- nilslindemann 3y agoAll GUI frameworks are complex (GTK, Qt), or slow (web based), look shit (Tkinter, ok that is also slow), or have just one dev (Sciter). Sucks.
- thwarted 3y agoReading this comment made me feel like I'd been transported back to 15+ years ago, when the same laments existed; and it's mostly the same actors, er, frameworks/libraries/tools being mentioned. WPF was released in 2007, five years after WinForms was initially released, and people were saying then "yet another? really?"