Re:The Return of Fancy Tools
by pjmlp on Saturday May 15, 2021 @06:28AM
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As long time developer on the Windows ecosystem I really don't get what happened.
I fully agree with the experience, add on top of that CLI tools for what used to be VS wizards, code instead of GUI designers, killing C++/CX replaced by C++/WinRT, which after 4 years still doesn't have VS tooling support, 5 competing GUI frameworks on Windows,....
Culture reboot at Microsoft went a bit too far in the wrong direction.
I fully agree with the experience, add on top of that CLI tools for what used to be VS wizards, code instead of GUI designers, killing C++/CX replaced by C++/WinRT, which after 4 years still doesn't have VS tooling support, 5 competing GUI frameworks on Windows,....
Culture reboot at Microsoft went a bit too far in the wrong direction.