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Pragmateek
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Pragmateek is a personal blog at pragmateek.com about programming and career. Since 2014, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in discussions of Microsoft's development platforms, mainly a post asking whether WPF is dead and what its present and future hold. Commenters cite it as a source on that topic.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-10-14
What Hacker News says?
I'll concede that there was definitely more churn around the change from OS 9 to OS X. But the result was definite forward progress: the entire OS moved off of its legacy core. This was clearly a transition period, with both the legacy APIs and modern replacements clearly identified. I don't think Microsoft's churn is like that at all. Instead it seems to reflect churn in their internal strategy. They attempt transi…
Comment linking /is-wpf-dead-the-present-and-future-of-wpf/
on “Mac App Store: The Subtle Exodus”Submitted Is WPF dead: the present and future of WPF as a story · 97 points
HN discussionAFAIK WPF isn't dead, its popular with line of business apps. But yeah, disappointing there's been only minor improvements to it in the last 4 years, during which they've been focusing their efforts on WinRT. I was just reading something about the subject here http://pragmateek.com/is-wpf-dead-the-present-and-future-of-...
Comment linking /is-wpf-dead-the-present-and-future-of-wpf
on “The Microsoft Empire Reboots”