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Re:Six years of Windows Presentation Foundation: What’s chan... by NicoJuicy on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:14PM (#14099093)
Chances are low, the graphics library has problems to be cross platform.

The work on wpf was 'finished'. It's not abandoned, but there is no innovation in it anymore. They will keep supporting it, but are looking for a way to do it crossplatform, which isn't an option yet

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Re:Six years of Windows Presentation Foundation: What’s chan... by c-smile on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @02:28PM (#14100411)
Just in case, "WPF vs Sciter": https://sciter.com/sciter/sciter-vs-wpf/

Essentially Sciter is a crossplatform WPF but using HTML/CSS instead of XAML.

As for me (I am an author of Sciter) the biggest disappointment was the way how styles were implemented in WPF/XAML. Even in 2006 it was clear that style cascading (contextual inheritance) is the way to go. It appears as XAML was not designed from the very beginning to be human readable - just trendy ("XML everywhere" in 2006) replacement of VB's .FRM files. .FRM files were even more human readable/editable ( notation was quite close to YAML).

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Re:Six years of Windows Presentation Foundation: What’s chan... by MichaelGG on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:17PM (#14099695)
Think of how much credit MS would get for making a cross-platform GUI toolkit. End the era of Electron apps without people having to use Qt.
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Re:Six years of Windows Presentation Foundation: What’s chan... by vintagedave on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:54PM (#14100021)
This is why people use Delphi and C++Builder.
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Re:Six years of Windows Presentation Foundation: What’s chan... by zeroc8 on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @03:25PM (#14100927)
There is a need for GUIs on Linux IOT devices running on ARM.

I would love to be able to use Delphi/Firemonkey for that.

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Re:Six years of Windows Presentation Foundation: What’s chan... by TimJYoung on Thursday April 13, 2017 @11:26AM (#14107765)
There's this, that I just found today:

http://www.fmxlinux.com/

It certainly looks interesting.

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