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Microsoft had a lot of great talent suffering from a lack of leadership and coherent vision. They foreshadowed everything wrong with Big Tech today.
by taylodl 6mo ago
Microsoft had a lot of great talent suffering from a lack of leadership and coherent vision. They foreshadowed everything wrong with Big Tech today.
- functional_dev 6mo agowhat surprised me is how different the rendering architecture is for each framework. Win32 -> message loops & GDI Winforms -> managed C# via P/Invoke WPF -> throwse all away and uses DirectX UWP -> Appcontainer sandboxing WinUI -> decouples from OS entirely This visual breakdown helped me to see it clearly - https://vectree.io/c/evolution-of-windows-gui-frameworks-from-win32-to-winui-3 https://vectree.io/c/evolution-of-windows-gui-frameworks-fro...
- FeistySkink 6mo agoAs far as I remember, WinForms is just a thin wrapper around Win32 with a message loop, i.e. not all that different.