Comment by LoganDark
19 hours ago
WinRT isn't the most awful in the world to use from, say, Rust because there are auto-generated bindings, but I agree that C++ can be awful.
19 hours ago
WinRT isn't the most awful in the world to use from, say, Rust because there are auto-generated bindings, but I agree that C++ can be awful.
WinRT was great, back when using it via .NET Native and C++/CX.
It was like Delphi and C++ Builder kind of experience, then they killed the whole experience.
Rust with windows-rs is hardly any better, and coming from the same folks that killed C++/CX, with false promises at CppCon 2017, I don't have great hopes for it. They will jump ship again after a new shiny.
The thing is, at least compiled programming languages are statically typed. XAML is... well I don't think they even have a language server for it. My experience in Visual Studio (non-Code) was pretty bad.
Because the idea is to use the designer, not write it by hand.
Well, until they killed the designer for WinUI 3.0, yet another flaw they don't talk about.
At least still around for Forms, WPF.