Comment by tomaskafka
8 years ago
Aaah, WPF. It's basically React (Native and hw accelerated!), 10 years earlier.
On one side, I'm glad that declarative app UIs can now be built on a web, on the other side - come on, Microsoft, we could have skipped a whole jQuery era and be somewhere else with the web now.
And react is still missing a big library of standard, well documented components with accesibility, performance and all the edge cases built in.
> Aaah, WPF. It's basically React (Native and hw accelerated!), 10 years earlier.
I'd love if that were true, but of course the big selling point of React Native is that it works on several platforms. WPF works on one, and only a desktop one. Well, now that WP is dead at least.
If WPF ran on iOS / Android, hell even if it just ran on MacOS, I think there'd be a lot more devs building apps in it than JavaScript.