[HN Gopher] Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP
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       Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP
        
       Author : adrian_mrd
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2021-10-19 20:15 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | phendrenad2 wrote:
       | Three-letter Microsoft acronyms come and go, but win32 is
       | forever.
        
       | literallyaduck wrote:
       | If people would accept the elegance of COBOL and stop demanding
       | eye candy the world would be a more efficient place. Dev stack
       | churn and application rewrites in stacks which frequently change
       | account for substantial waste.
        
       | NikolaeVarius wrote:
       | Well that was fast. Only 6 years old
        
         | WalterGR wrote:
         | That's 12 in Google years, though.
        
       | moogly wrote:
       | I know a lot of people like XAML, but as a XAML skeptic (yes,
       | I've had the misfortune to work with it professionally), maybe MS
       | should take note that all XAML-based UI frameworks end up being
       | unpopular outside of LOB apps and they keep on deprecating them
       | (or virtually abandoning them like WPF), but still keep on
       | remaking basically the same framework over and over again,
       | developer experience-wise.
        
       | dragontamer wrote:
       | Silverlight -> Windows 8 -> UWP -> Windows App SDK
       | 
       | You just gotta feel bad for the Windows developers on this one,
       | along with XNA and all the other stuff in the past couple of
       | years.
        
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