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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by kyberias on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:55PM (#14090645)
> DOM / CSS manipulation, however bad they are, are years ahead compared to what you can easily do with WPF and friends.

This doesn't make any sense. It's much easier to create UI with XAML (WPF) because it's designed for that purpose alone. HTML / CSS really isn't.

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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) by pandalicious on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @04:36PM (#14092202)
Yep, WPF is probably the best platform at present for creating rich GUI apps. It's failure to really take off is overwhelmingly caused by its complete lack of cross-platform capability. If you're creating a new Windows app from scratch it's really hard to justify using a GUI framework that eliminates the option of going cross-platform in the future without needing to do a near-total rewrite.
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