Re:TailBlazer: A modern file tail utility based on rx.net
by m_fayer on Friday November 20, 2015 @08:46AM
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Something interesting about this project: It showcases what has so far been a mostly below-the-radar effort to overhaul and modernize WPF.
WPF has an incredibly broad and powerful API, tied to a fairly inefficient and poky rendering stack, which can be mitigated through great care. MS has nearly abandoned it, and is instead pushing the comparatively limited and immature UWP. I think the revitalizing .NET OSS community still prefers the power and compatibility of WPF, and is going its own way. This project uses Mahapps.Metro and XAML Material Design. Together, these two make it easy to build visually sophisticated Windows desktop apps without using HTML or reinventing a whole GUI stack.
This could put MS into a strange position where the great Windows apps are written in a technology that it's written off, and that aren't compatible with the Windows store.
WPF has an incredibly broad and powerful API, tied to a fairly inefficient and poky rendering stack, which can be mitigated through great care. MS has nearly abandoned it, and is instead pushing the comparatively limited and immature UWP. I think the revitalizing .NET OSS community still prefers the power and compatibility of WPF, and is going its own way. This project uses Mahapps.Metro and XAML Material Design. Together, these two make it easy to build visually sophisticated Windows desktop apps without using HTML or reinventing a whole GUI stack.
This could put MS into a strange position where the great Windows apps are written in a technology that it's written off, and that aren't compatible with the Windows store.