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by grokys 12y ago
You can find a study of how WPF and Direct2D's renderers compare here: http://jeremiahmorrill.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/a-critical-d...
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by grokys 12y ago
I agree except that the OP mentioned "while having a nice developer experience" which I assumed was speaking about VS.
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by grokys 12y ago
> all the features that is needed to create rich applications, while having a nice developer experience I wouldn't say that is true. For example even renaming a Window/UserControl in Visual Studio doesn't work correctly. T
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by grokys 12y ago
Personal plug here: I've been tinkering with writing a GUI toolkit along the lines of WPF here: https://github.com/grokys/Perspex/ . It's obviously very early days and this is as much for my curiosity as
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by grokys 12y ago
Oh I mean I use it almost every day and it has many good points, but the complete lack of interest from MS is obvious. I mean, even renaming a window doesn't work properly in Visual Studio. Most of it hasn't even been updated to u
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by grokys 12y ago
> The holy grail for Microsoft would be getting developers to write new software for Windows again, putting Windows back at the center of a new virtuous circle. And yet there is no currently properly supported way to write desktop applic
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by grokys 12y ago
> I believe that the CSS code we write today will be readable by computers 500 years from now. Well, good luck with that one! I wonder if he seriously believe computers in 500 years time will actually resemble our computers in any way? O
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by grokys 12y ago
This looks to me like the file is in something like the IFF format: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_File_Format
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by grokys 12y ago
Yes, but it's unlikely that someone asking "is it faster to concatenate strings in C# using the + operator or StringBuilder" on StackOverflow is someone that is writing a low-level database engine like SQLite. In my (totally
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Show HN: Perspex – a next generation WPF?(github.com)
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