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mindgrow2018-03-07 17:17:38
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mindgrow, 2018-03-07 17:17:38

Is WPF dead yet?

Good afternoon!
Lately I've been looking at the git and many have WPF projects. Many of the latest updates were within the last year. Hence the question, is it really still promising to learn how to work with WPF?
I last worked with WPF about 3 years ago and was very excited to see how easy it is to use almost the same xaml layout in desktop applications (wpf), web (silverlight) and mobile (windows-phone) . I smoked ExpressionBlend
and it all ended up that I came to the conclusion
- if you want to write beautiful desktop applications - then use DevExpress, not WPF
- if you want to write mobile applications - use Xamarin, not WindowsPhone
- if you want to write web applications - use ASP.NET MVC, not Silverlight
But still I see people coding in WPF. I see all sorts of storage for video, auto shops. But why are they using him if he seems to be dead? Or didn't he die?

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Stanislav Makarov, 2018-03-07
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WPF is dead. C# on the client also died. C++ and Qt on the client is dead. Native applications and those close to them (WPF/WinForms) are dead. Native applications are written only by OS developers, and then until they are rewritten on Electron. Electron will soon be a kernel module/driver to improve the performance of HTML interfaces.
Phew, this is just a dream.
What is that supposed to mean? I know that DevExpress has a set of components for different UI technologies, but I have not heard that they have their own UI solution that is not based on something like WPF/WinForms/HTML.
Those. generate only static UI on server only? Why are you comparing Silverlight (which, by the way, is dead, for sure) with ASP.NET MVC, and not with HTML or HTML + React for example?

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