Re:Electron considered harmful
by m_fayer on Thursday November 24, 2016 @02:14PM
(#13032173)
The only native toolkit I've ever tried that I thought could compete with web is wpf. It was slow and cludgy but way ahead of its time, and the web is only now starting to approach its power.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
I think WPF is nice but has actually fallen behind a bit on binding vs. some of the web toolkits like React/Redux, Angular 2, Ember.
It's been a while since I messed with it, but MVVM didn't work so well for some kinds of things, which seemed to be why for example selected items property is often not a dependency property of MS supplied widgets (so can't be participate in binding). For example see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22868445/wpf-binding-sele... (from what I remember this accepted solution also has a subtle bug of double notification (or was it lack of notification on one side?)).
Re:Electron considered harmful
by mwcampbell on Thursday November 24, 2016 @05:35PM
(#13033223)
Perhaps WPF was the Electron of its time, in terms of being a resource hog. I remember how one particular WPF-based application hastened the obsolescence of my brother's laptop some years ago. [1]