Because people would build for that instead of Win32.
Incumbent MFC, Winforms and WPF stuff will live as long as VB6 did (and still does) though.
Edit as HN won't let me reply (submitting too fast). In Europe and JavaFX also has hardware acceleration as does CEF as it uses Chrome's rendering engine.
>> Even the financial companies we deal with who were pretty heavy with the WPF are canning it next cycle.
Where are you based? What are they planning to adopt?
My company is consulting a couple of hedge funds in New York and they have no plans of replacing WPF for their trading apps.
The desktop CLR VM plus proper GPU acceleration makes WPF faster than any alternative (when avoiding binding). As far as I'm aware no other UI toolkit comes anywhere close.
But it does, it just hides the link. All you have to do is to go to the child's comment by clicking the time link, then you'll get a reply box. In your case the comment you probably want to reply to is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10416018