alt Hacker NewsMicrosoft had a lot of great talent suffering from a lack of leadership and coherent vision. They foreshadowed everything wrong with Big Tech today.
Microsoft had a lot of great talent suffering from a lack of leadership and coherent vision. They foreshadowed everything wrong with Big Tech today.
what surprised me is how different the rendering architecture is for each framework.
Win32 -> message loops & GDI
Winforms -> managed C# via P/Invoke
WPF -> throwse all away and uses DirectX
UWP -> Appcontainer sandboxing
WinUI -> decouples from OS entirely
This visual breakdown helped me to see it clearly - https://vectree.io/c/evolution-of-windows-gui-frameworks-fro...