[HN Gopher] Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsof...
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       Creator of Rufus outlines the problems with Microsoft's UWP
        
       Author : onlyforthat
       Score  : 33 points
       Date   : 2021-05-30 13:50 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | serentty wrote:
       | What's the point of posting this now? Pure UWP is practically
       | dead. Microsoft has made most of the new APIs and GUI features
       | originally meant for UWP available to all Windows programs
       | through WinRT/COM. UWP is simply being absorbed into the wider
       | Windows ecosystem. You only need to deal with the UWP sandbox
       | these days if you're a masochist.
        
         | pjmlp wrote:
         | What they are making available in Win32 still requires code
         | rewriting, is incomplete, while throwing away the VS tooling
         | support they have on the UWP side of the fence.
         | 
         | Don't expect much adoption love.
        
       | pjmlp wrote:
       | Reposting my comment from the Reddit discussion,
       | 
       | He missed two important point that really puts me off.
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       | The continuous reboots since Windows 8 was introduced.
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       | The complete lack of respect for paying customers to deprecate
       | C++/CX in name of ISO C++17 compatibility, with C++/WinRT,
       | without any kind of Visual Studio tooling support, even after 4
       | years in development.
       | 
       | So now any .NET Native developer that would be dealing with
       | C++/CX for those APIs that the WinDev refuses to create WinRT
       | bindings, needs to write IDL files without any tooling, copy and
       | merge generated files into their projects.
       | 
       | Wait for ISO C++ to get reflection and maybe we will do something
       | about it they say.
       | 
       | Sometimes I get the feeling WinDev requires Notepad as their IDE.
       | 
       | Speaking of .NET Native, it is in maintenance, expect nothing
       | beyond .NET Core 3.1 / C# 7.3.
        
         | JackGreyhat wrote:
         | To be clear: thats the stuff that puts you off with UWP, not
         | Rufus, right?
        
           | pjmlp wrote:
           | Yes, me and plenty of others disappointed how things turned
           | out to be, most likely Rufus will also agree with these
           | additional points.
        
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