[mc_hammer]

i really love these launcher apps.

this one sort of illustrates the problem with developing windows apps:

- you either learn complicated c++ and windows api and have to write your own rendering framework for custom components

- or use C# and xaml and get terrible performance with systems with no gpu acceleration

- or use VB for terrible performance and CPU usage

- or use javascript and node for huge memory usage and slower rendering than c++ (VB has the same issues)

[ygra]

Uh, where did you get the VB for terrible performance and CPU usage? There's nothing inherent to the language that makes it less efficient than C# or anything else running on the CLR.