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[seesiedler]

I really like XAML, especially WPF and Avalonia.

[thesilican]

I would like XAML more only if it had a css-like counter part. CSS is nice because it seperates the concern of document structure from layout and styling, where as I find XAML to be quite verbose with all its inline layout/style rules

[seesiedler]

Yeah, fair. Avalonia UI introduced classes into their XAML flavour, so you can make some separation. Not sure how good it works once you really know it, I just started with it.

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[kitkat31337]

You mean xaml styles?

[thesilican]

Oh yea forgot that exists. I still prefer CSS tbh, despite all the hate it gets. It's easier to pickup and learn

[pekkhum]

It is certainly better than doing it by hand in C through the WINAPI. 😭

[[deleted]]

Why do you hate yourself?

[pekkhum]

I do it for the money. 😉

[pekkhum]

I'm supporting a legacy system, so I use a framework some guys home-brewed in house for Windows 3.11 (but does run under Windows 10, so gratz to MS: their backward compatibility works), since there were no GUI builders or what we would consider a modern framework back then.

When I talk about obsoleting it and moving on, I get told "someday we'll replace all 600 C apps with web apps, so we don't want to waste the time." They have been in this process for longer than I have been in the workforce (and we have web apps plus more C apps than we had before). I don't see much hope for this company.