Kiwi Ghost Chips posted:

akadajet posted:

now i haven't touched it in 2 years, but opening a xaml file in VS caused the whole thing to come to a screeching halt. a lot of the times making changes would cause the entire IDE to just crash. none of the nice VS code refactoring tools worked with it. there was a slightly less garbage editor (expression blend) that you could get, but that was a separate license and fairly expensive. and it didn't work that great with anything but the most basic of .slns.

the UIs you build with it look completely out of place on windows. the font rendering is blurry garbage, the typography options you had were slim (you couldn't adjust kerning or anything). a lot of things would have blurry edges because nothing was aligned to pixel grids without you having to jump through a bunch of hoops. bitmaps would wind up blurry for the same reason. even the simplest of UIs would just feel like crap.

XAML was terrible and never evolved to be more developer friendly. things may have changed, but i doubt it: http://paulstovell.com/blog/six-years-of-wpf.

code:

<Window x:Class="PaulStovell.TrialBalance.UserInterface.MainWindow"
  xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"
  xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"
  xmlns:tb="clr-namespace:PaulStovell.TrialBalance.UserInterface"
  xmlns:tbp="clr-namespace:PaulStovell.TrialBalance.UserInterface.Providers"
  xmlns:system="clr-namespace:System;assembly=mscorlib"
  Title="TrialBalance" 
  WindowState="Maximized"
  Width="1000"
  Height="700"
  Icon="{StaticResource Image_ApplicationIcon}"
  Background="{StaticResource Brush_DefaultWindowBackground}"
  x:Name="_this"
  >

nice boilerplate

i use html/css and ember for front end apps today. it's very nice and way easier to use and maintain than wpf/xaml

akadajet posted:

it's good poo poo, as long as you avoid the hipster mustaches.

VLADIMIR GLUTEN posted:

http://emberjs.com/images/about/ember-handlebars-sm.png

Shaggar posted:

angular is trash. don't use js but if you have to use js use knockout

KARMA! posted:

i thought everybody uses react now as the hot jnew thing

rekk posted:

i hate curly brackets

pram posted:

Angular 2.0s direction is dumb though

pram posted:

you can use react with angular but you need to do some fuckery to tie in with the scope digest

bobbilljim posted:

i put in extra curly brackets, just for you. gently caress your one line if statement. its getting brackets.

Shaggar posted:

angular is trash. use knockout

bobbilljim posted:

gently caress your one line if statement. its getting brackets.

my stepdads beer posted:

dropwizzard seems like a cool thing, tell me about it javahavers?

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

dropwizard is a collection of libraries + a deployment method you should probably be using anyway

you can re-create that collection in 30 seconds with a maven pom, but that's not the point. dropwizard's creators chose which libraries you should be using and how you should deploy. the project provides an opinion.