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A simple to medium complexity WPF app will be slower than its Winforms or Win32 counter part. It will use a lot more memory too. There may be ways around this but why can't MS optimize it instead of forcing every developer to jump through the same hoops?
> why can't MS optimize They can. They just prefer to make every Windows developer jump through hoops, as it's so much more cost-effective.
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A simple to medium complexity WPF app will be slower than its Winforms or Win32 counter part. It will use a lot more memory too. There may be ways around this but why can't MS optimize it instead of forcing every developer to jump through the same hoops?
Higher than "simple to medium" scale/complexity situations are probably their priority when it comes to optimisation, on the basis that most smaller scale/complexity apps won't experience the difference and those that do can be tweaked by the programmer. A major factor to consider when optimising anything particularly something as generic as a large framework is that an optimisation for small scale situations can hav…
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I know Peter personally, and he is one of the more well-educated, intelligent, and astonishingly competent developers I know. Nice flamebait, though.
I read the article one more time, it does seem to be much more lucid now. I'll attribute my bad interpretation of it on the fact I read it very late last night - when it seemed to me he was saying that HTML5+JS was replacing .NET and WPF. He still makes some absurd claims though: "... they were told that all their experience, all their knowledge, and every program they have written in the past would be useless on Win…
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consumer != corporate
But all corporate employees are also consumers, and the last ten or so years of consumer-oriented web and native application development has raised everyone's expectations about how software can look and behave. The corporate IT shops are not immune from the demands that these expectations create. For example, a significant proportion of them are now having to work out how to support Apple's devices for corporate net…
Anyone else notice that within a year, you'll be able to write cross platform html5+js apps that run Black Berry, Windows 8, WebOS, Android and iOS? If this becomes the standard, like I suspect it will, one of the biggest losers will be companies that run big app stores.
It's not HTML+JS, it's HTML + JS + vendor-specific bindings + vendor-specific packaging & signature. At best you'll be dealing with another fat abstraction layer with same kind of annoying small incompatibilities that plague(d) web browsers.
Anyone else notice that within a year, you'll be able to write cross platform html5+js apps that run Black Berry, Windows 8, WebOS, Android and iOS? If this becomes the standard, like I suspect it will, one of the biggest losers will be companies that run big app stores.
* HTML -> Web apps
* Silverlight -> Native Apps & Mobile Apps (DirectUI?)
* WPF -> Dead
After a few minutes on the internets I discovered a little gem of a thread: http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/26404-Windows-8-(79... In this thread you'll see much more clearly what MS is planning. It's not just HTML/JS for these immersive apps. Rather it appears that the CLR will become a first class part of Windows. If you are a Windows dev or are interested in Windows dev, this is a must read thread. In fac…
I read that a couple days ago and here are the two most interesting posts... Microsoft's own immersive html application is just a thin layer over native code http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/26404-Windows-8-(79... .NET Ahead-Of-Time compiler is probably coming http://forums.mydigitallife.info/threads/26404-Windows-8-(79... [EDIT] And for those worried Silverlight developers, scan that thread for DirectUI.
I am looking forward - and I just dont think Microsoft has its act together or even beleives its "Developers, Developers, Developers" mantra any more.
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That's one of the many things I like in open source - there are no secrets, no big surprises and nobody ever forces you anything.
There is still dislike and complaints about new directions (Unity, Gnome3, KDE4, etc.).
You can't force an open-source developer to work on something he/she doesn't like and agree.