Re:Android Killed Windows Phone, Not Apple
by WorldMaker on Monday July 24, 2017 @12:15PM
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XAML/WPF is close enough to XAML/UWP that you could keep a codebase for both relatively clean and easy to support. (As someone that had to do a bunch of work to maintain a codebase with both XAML/WPF and XAML/Silverlight front-ends, I have very little sympathy to give to anyone that thinks otherwise.)
These days it's getting even easier with Xamarin adding support for WPF, but even without that sort of hand-holding there have always been options.
XAML/WPF is much better than "no backwards compatibility" if you needed to support a UWP-first application on Windows 7. Certainly there were more issues moving the other direction, but particularly/mostly if you had skipped architecting for Silverlight as an intermediate step.
These days it's getting even easier with Xamarin adding support for WPF, but even without that sort of hand-holding there have always been options.
XAML/WPF is much better than "no backwards compatibility" if you needed to support a UWP-first application on Windows 7. Certainly there were more issues moving the other direction, but particularly/mostly if you had skipped architecting for Silverlight as an intermediate step.