r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 2d ago

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u/uvero 2d ago

relates in WPF

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u/heavy-minium 2d ago

Haven’t been doing any WPF/UWP for a decade by now, but I really liked it. Has it become some outdated technology now?

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u/uvero 2d ago

Feels like it? Not as much as jQuery. Microsoft now has some other tech stack for C# desktop apps, and I think C#'s popularity for desktop development has declined, so WPF is mostly relevant to maintaining old projects. Which is why saying I'm a WPF dev, it feels almost like saying I'm a COBOL dev

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u/BadSmash4 2d ago

I do a lot of WPF as well but I'm slowly converting all of our old WPF apps to Avalonia. Same syntax but the default styles are nicer and the features are better. Plus, cross platform, which means that once all our WPF apps are Avalonia and not .NET Framework, I can request a Linux laptop and get off Windows fully.

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u/uvero 2d ago

I envy that (other than the Linux part, I'm unironically a Windows person)

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u/BadSmash4 2d ago

Nothing wrong with that! I'll never shame a Windows enjoyer. I'm just more comfortable in Linux, and it's way better for when I have to do raw C/C++ work

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u/tea-and-chill 2d ago

"windows enjoyer"

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u/the_matthew 2d ago

My hot take is that Microsoft really hates .NET but it caters to just enough of the enterprise segment that they feel obligated to make it look like they support it. The way they slung out WinRT, WPF, and date I even say Silverlight only to hang them out to dry a few years later is my evidence.

I often joke that in government no one ever has been fired for using Microsoft, but man, adopting a new Microsoft technology only to see it get flushed or neglected has real world costs.

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u/tinyturtletickler 2d ago

Idk they have entirely revamped .NET over the past ten years. I think .NET Core really breathed new life into the stack

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u/ludolfina 2d ago

I forgot how bad .NET Framework was in comparison to Core until I had to use it again. It was a much needed rewrite

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u/afdbcreid 2d ago

No, Microsoft likes .NET. They invest in it a lot and it always keeps improving.

Microsoft hates GUI. Or maybe it loves them so much that it keeps creating new ones.

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u/Rellikx 2d ago

Huh I was going to say the opposite, they have heavily unshittified .net in recent years.

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u/the_matthew 2d ago

You're probably right I'm coming from the .NET 3.5 era.

I'm glad to hear that because I always liked C#.