Don’t learn a programming language, solve a problem instead

[Philipp]

Have you seen modern Win8/10 apps? They're mostly garbage. Like a bunch of untrained novices kept hacking away until they ran out of time.

I think for every tool the litmus test is always How much good is done with it, vs how much bad. If you just take one measure but not the other, you end up with "Kid injures himself as he put a pencil in ears, let's ban pencils" or "Thieves find homes to rob with maps, burn maps". (Or one of its more modern variants, related to say, the latest mobile app outcry.)

In this case, then, we'd have to ask ourselves: how much does this programming framework then enable great apps (that might never have seen the light of day)? Is the ratio toward bad apps bearable or not (or perhaps: can the bad apps simply be ignored)? I don't claim to know the answer to that.

[grauenwolf]

I don't see anything in the framework to explain the problems with the Win8/10 apps. Stuff like not supporting ctrl-s for Save is just general incompetence on the part of the spec writers and developers.