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Don't forget the desktop sector, which isn't entirely dead yet. Pretty much everything is better than MFC, and with Delphi going nowhere (for obvious reasons),
by mhd 13y ago
Don't forget the desktop sector, which isn't entirely dead yet. Pretty much everything is better than MFC, and with Delphi going nowhere (for obvious reasons), a lot of people writing relatively small custom software apps transitioned to .NET, either with C# or VB. Don't think that will change that much with WinRT. (JavaScript seems mostly an angle to get some web developers to do small Metro apps)
- mamp 13y agoI think MS have lost a lot of support on the desktop after deprecating Windows Forms (which is all a lot of enterprise apps need), followed by WPF/Silverlight's poor penetration leaving no hardware accelerated graphics for non-WPF (bit blitting excluded), and then the confusing messages around WinRT which at one point looked like they were deprecating WPF as well. While the front end flashy stuff isn't there compared in .net compared to the better Javascript libraries (I love d3!) MS have really progressed the non-sexy .net improvements e.g. C# evolution, F#, WebAPI.