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Repo contributor here, just to curb some expectations a bit: it's one very smart guy (Kenny), his unpaid volunteer sidekick (me), and a few unpaid external cont
by withinrafael 2y ago
Repo contributor here, just to curb some expectations a bit: it's one very smart guy (Kenny), his unpaid volunteer sidekick (me), and a few unpaid external contributors. (I'm trying to draw a line between those with and without commit access, hence all the edits.)
There's no other internal or external Microsoft /support/ that I'm aware of. I wouldn't necessarily use it as a signal of the company's intentions at this time.
That said, there are Microsoft folks working on the Rust compiler, toolchain, etc. side of things too. Maybe those are better indicators!
- heavyset_go 2y agoThat's disappointing on Microsoft's part, because their docs make it seem like windows-rs is the way of the future. Thanks for your work, though!
- smileson2 2y agoI wish Microsoft had any direction on the 'way of the future' for native apps on Windows
- travisgriggs 2y agoIf they did publish a “way of the future” direction, would you believe them? Fool me N times then shame on them, fool me N+1 times, then shame on me sort of thing.
- tracker1 2y agoI'd have bought into MAUI if there was Linux support in the box.
- somenameforme 2y agoThe most infuriating thing is their habit of rebuilding things just about the time they reach a mature and highly stable state, creating an entirely new unstable and unreliable system. And then the time that system almost reaches a stable state - it's scrapped and it starts all over again. WPF -> UWP -> WinUI -> WinUI 2 -> WinUI 3 is just such a ridiculous chain. WPF was awesome, highly extensible, and could have easily and modularly been extended indefinitely - while also maintaining its widespread (if unofficial) cross platform support and just general rock solid performance/stability. Instead it's the above pattern over and over and over. And now it seems WinUI 3 is also dead, alas without even bothering with a replacement. Or maybe that's XAMARIN, wait I mean MAUI? Not entirely joking - I never bothered to follow that seemingly completely parallel system doing pretty much the same things. On the bright side this got me to finally migrate away from Microsoft UI solutions, which has made my life much more pleasant since!
- pjmlp 2y agoDon't be, they also killed C++/CX, even went to CppCon 2016 telling us how great future C++/WinRT would bring to us. Now almost a decade later, VS tooling is still not there, stuck in ATL/VC++ 6.0 like experience (they blame it on the VS team), C++/WinRT is in maintenance, only bug fixes, and all the fun is on Rust/WinRT. I would never trust this work for production development.