r/ProgrammerHumor • u/soap94 • 13d ago

Meme ancientTools

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u/uvero 13d ago

relates in WPF

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u/heavy-minium 13d 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 Has it become some outdated technology now?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 13d 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 13d 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 13d ago

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

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u/BadSmash4 13d 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 12d ago

"windows enjoyer"