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Comment by moomin

1 day ago

The Windows team is talking to DevDiv again? Satan's putting on his ice skates right now.

One can only hope.

C++/WinRT is in maintenance, and you will notice the WinUI 3.0 does most of their demos, and gallery with C#.

  • In terms of XAML UI, C++/WinRT struggles. When it was released, C++ just lacked good reflection methods, and many practices that were easily achieved in C#, such as MVVM, data bindings, were difficult to migrate. I think this prevented C++ from re-entering modern Windows development practices.

  • It would be nice if any display API actually covered the entire API with the exception of the actual OS API…