Open Source .NET – 2 years later

Re:Open Source .NET – 2 years later by pjmlp on Thursday November 24, 2016 @01:20PM (#13031823)

The majority of desktop applications that we create, and we do create quite a few of them, are mostly WPF, with some new ones now being prototyped in UWP.

So no, .NET on GNU/Linux won't make those customers magically migrate to it, specially since GUI tooling isn't part of .NET Standard.

Even if WPF, UWP and Blend get ported, I don't see those customers changing their IT infrastructure for desktop, device readers and robot controllers OSes.

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Re:Open Source .NET – 2 years later by rcurry on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:37PM (#13032283)

What kind of WPF applications are you writing?

I'm just curious because I always liked WPF but I don't hear about too many people developing for it these days.

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Re:Open Source .NET – 2 years later by pjmlp on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:54PM (#13032382)

Data manipulation applications for life sciences data analysis, front ends to industrial robot automation systems, control software for medical devices, scheduling systems, ...

Sometimes there is still an inhouse C++ layer for driving the hardware when talking to older devices, but newer ones are covered by standard Windows APIs or OEM provided libraries, so we can write everything in .NET.

If you search for WPF jobs in Europe you will find many people do use it, even for greenfield projects.

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