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In the time spanning from WPF and UWP is when I lost all interest in developing for Windows as a platform. In particular I was interested in developing for Win
by karmakaze 3y ago
In the time spanning from WPF and UWP is when I lost all interest in developing for Windows as a platform.
In particular I was interested in developing for Windows Phone, only to discover that the UI SDKs for them were same in name only and largely incompatible, so devs had to use similar tools to recreate similar UIs independently for desktop and mobile. That discovery also dissuaded me to not develop for Windows Phone either.
Of all the rest in that time, Silverlight was actually the best for rich client apps. I did a performance/capabilities comparison of Silverlight, Adobe AIR, and JavaFX and found Silverlight to be highly capable and performant on common hardware. It then went into a state of becoming discontinued though still used/supported for a good number of years. Netflix used Silverlight for the browser and apparently only stopped supporting it on Sept 13, 2023 though MS says it was unsupported since Oct 2021.
- pavlov 3y agoSilverlight UIs delivered via the browser plugin were terrible on the Mac. The look and feel was completely off somehow. Even Flash/Flex was better. I don’t know if Silverlight was better on Windows, but as a cross-platform solution it never worked as advertised.
- karmakaze 3y agoInteresting, I had only tested on Windows and Linux. I suppose both MS/Apple were playing the same "worse experience on other platfoms" game, a la iTunes of the day. (Now Apple Music sucks period)