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I genuinely thought a lot of these sibling comments were satire at first! The acronyms, the lengthy and confused explanations of versions, frameworks etc: > Wi
by octo888 1y ago
I genuinely thought a lot of these sibling comments were satire at first! The acronyms, the lengthy and confused explanations of versions, frameworks etc:
> WinUI is an evolution of UWP which is an evolution of WinRT
> WinUI 3
> WinUI 3 still supports WinRT
> XAML
> Shell UI
> Avalon
> WPF
> WPF = WinUI 1.0
> Project Reunion
> UWP
> Win2D
> ATL/MFC
> Just go for MFC FTW
> wxWidgets as it is kinda MFC-y
> Or go with Qt
> MFC/Win32 + XAML Islands
- pjmlp 1y agoI can produce similar lists on other domains in the industry, it is a matter of being part of the ecosystem.
- octo888 1y agoOK but stick to the UI framework domain for a fairer comparison. (We all know tech has acronyms) So what you got?
- pjmlp 1y agoReplace the Microsoft specific terms of those examples with, - kexts - Cocoa - UIKit - Carbon - SwiftUI - MSL - XPC - ARC - plist - CoreData - CloudKit - SpriteKit - SceneKit - RealityKit Do you think anyone that never bothered with Apple's developer ecosystem has any clue of those names are for? And that is a very small overview.