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It still exists. Modern C# and C++ have Windows Form Builder tooling built in and it's still very good.
by nickstinemates 3y ago
It still exists. Modern C# and C++ have Windows Form Builder tooling built in and it's still very good.
- Loocid 3y agoThey are good for small projects but I think they fall apart quickly when trying to do anything more complex. I've worked in multiple C# shops with both WinForms and WPF. Everyone in the WinForms shop hated it due to the enforced designer usage, and everyone in the WPF shop only used the designer as a preview window and never directly used it to build anything. I can't speak for the C++ side of things.
- fuzztester 3y agoWhat is the common or recommended GUI framework [1] (or whatever the right term is) on Windows these days? Also, I think I read a few times on other HN threads, somewhat recently, that the GUI development scene on Windows is a mess these days, because MS changes the recommended framework every now and then. Is that true? [1] By framework, here, I mean the layer such as WinForms or WPF, that GUI developers program to.
- Loocid 3y agoThere are newer frameworks like MAUI but I believe WPF is the most common for pure Windows development. It's the best mix of modernity and stability. WinUI3 is coming but I don't think it's properly supported yet. There's also Avalonia if you want cross platform (not first party). Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I've been in WinForms land for a while (unfortunately).
- fuzztester 3y agoThanks.