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throwawaywindevon Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32

Windows.UI.Composition makes the UWP UI toolkit way better than anything that came before it.

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/09/16/animations...

throwawaywindevon Microsoft Confirms UWP Is Not the Future of Windows Apps

Coincidentally office is adopting more and more UWP controls in their Win32 app using these publicly available interop technologies.

throwawaywindevon Which programming language is used for making Windows 10?

New stuff is UWP or HTML. Old stuff is mix of GDI and internal UI frameworks.

throwawaywindevon Stamos says the US must ‘come together to protect’ democracy from misinformation

The problem is the signal to noise ratio is getting so bad that you don’t know what information to trust.

throwawaywindevon iPhones are hard to use

The WiFi thing is made more complicated by how the Apple Watch works. It uses an adhoc WiFi connection to your iPhone, so you don’t want the toggle to disable that. And it would be confusing to have different behavior depending on whether or not your watch is nearby.

throwawaywindevon Apple’s use of Swift in iOS 12

Actually most of the “new” (last three years) UWP Windows 10 UI is C++, and there is more JavaScript/HTML than .NET Native. The Xbox dashboard is .NET Native though and all of us on the Windows UI team are jealous.

The problem that we have is that we have so much infrastructure around C++ that it is expensive to switch. Even if you get faster compile times or theoretically less memory management bugs, you may lose the productivity in other ways if the rest of your tooling isn’t there.

With C# you definitely pay a small cost in memory consumption and a decent cost in binary size vs. C++ though, which still matters.