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It's ugly and not cross platform, but WinForms still holds a special place in my heart. So quick and easy to build something good enough for many internal uses.
by yodon 3y ago
It's ugly and not cross platform, but WinForms still holds a special place in my heart. So quick and easy to build something good enough for many internal uses.
For everything else, unfortunately, I reach for React, which isn't listed.
- PedroBatista 3y ago100% this. For all it's "faults", WinForms worked and it was pretty sane for doing desktop apps. Everything after that ranged from bad to absolute disaster and to prove it are the 9 (!!!) frameworks/libs they released since then.
- ufmace 3y agoThis. I don't even really do Windows or Desktop dev anymore, but if I want to make a GUI desktop app, WinForms is still the first thing I reach for. Making a basic window with a few standard UI elements and some modest amount of code in a reasonable language to drive the actions is dead simple. And you can be confident it will continue to work fine for years, decades even.
- HideousKojima 3y agoUsing the Godot game engine for GUIs feels reminiscent of a modern WinForms to me, especially since it's all event-based.