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Ixrec

11:00 PM

you guys keep doing that when I'm looking at other windows =(

durron597

Can someone not on mobile (e.g. Not me) make @Ixrec a room owner?

whatsisname

i find it comical that in this question, one guy is disagreeing with everyone but his writing has tons of typos. workplace.stackexchange.com/questions/46834/…

user114359

@MichaelT interesting. I have never messed with image processing but it fascinates me.

Robert Harvey

So I'm going through Sam's Teach Yourself WPF in 24 Hours (a fool's errand if ever there was one) to familiarize myself with WPF for an interview.

In the process, I stumbled across WinRT, which also uses XAML, albeit a slightly stunted version of the WPF XAML. This apparently took place a couple of years ago.

In the meantime, the Blend team has been feverishly re-integrating XAML with Visual Studio proper, because it's too hard to duplicate all features across two products.

While that has been happening, the world has apparently moved away from XAML towards HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript as the preferred platform for building Windows Store apps.

All this in a two year timespan. What gives?

Is WPF dead? Is WinRT dead? Is HTML5 the new hotness for Windows apps? Does the fox really say ring ding ding di dinga ding ding?

Perhaps I should ask this on the main site.

psr

11:18 PM

@RobertHarvey That's the title of a bunch of blogs over the past few years. MS as usual publicly says they support everything, please write code for us.

Robert Harvey

Yeah, but I don't think WinRT is a recognized term anymore, even by Microsoft. They've quietly swept it under the rug, in favor of HTML5, I think? You can call me Ray, or you can call me Jay...

user114359

Microsoft have never implemented five technologies to do the same thing, all working in a different way, after charging $200+ a pop for certification exams on deprecated technology (this is a bald-faced lie).

whatsisname

I don't think that WPF is dead, but that windows forms will persist for eternity

WPF is too slow and full of gotchas

WinRT is their dumb app-store thing

it's pointless

always has been

user114359

At first I dismissed their app store. But pretty soon all the people (like me) that skipped Windows 8.x will upgrade to 10, and there will be a huge market for selling desktop apps through their store.

user114359

App stores cut their teeth on mobile but I think this can really take off

user114359

11:29 PM

I just wonder if I can sell a C++/wxWidgets app through their store or if I need to drink the MS Kool-Aid.

whatsisname

no way

WinRT is a joke

"or if I need to drink the MS Kool-Aid"

lol as though that's even a question, of course you do

user114359

I assumed the worst. Although, Microsoft are supposedly adding Android support to Windows 10.

user114359

Visual Studio Community Edition that has all the features of Professional (including the multi-threaded debugger) and explicitly allows open-source development using it unlike the first few "free" editions.

user114359

They are coming around on a few things