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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by eberkund on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @02:26PM (#14310405)
Why? UWP is the future of application development on Windows. That's like saying Cocoa will never be a success. Also if you can make UWP apps, you can make Xamarin apps which are cross platform (for mobile at least).
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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by donblas33 on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @04:26PM (#14311339)
Xamarin.Forms support for macOS is in preview:

https://blog.xamarin.com/preview-bringing-macos-to-xamarin-f...

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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by simooooo on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @06:43PM (#14312409)
It would be cool to have that display engine on other platforms though..
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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by flukus on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:49AM (#14313890)
UWP doesn't allow enough system access to ever be the future of Windows. At best it's the future of a locked down toy version of windows.
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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @11:19AM (#14316655)
> UWP doesn't allow enough system access to ever be the future of Windows.

That's kind of the point. Most apps don't need unfettered system access and many (most?) app authors aren't capable of writing an app that's secure anyway; one of the biggest attack vectors today is through apps.

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Re:Visual Studio for Mac by flukus on Thursday May 11, 2017 @05:51PM (#14319831)
UWP won't replace win32 until it can handle all apps, not just most apps.
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