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by TBurette 2444 days ago
The fact that they had a long time to transition doesn't negate the fact that they have to spend the time doing the transition.

At market-rate developer salary, it doesn't take a lot of man months for the port not to be worth the investment for small shops.
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qubex 2444 days ago
Actually, considering the long-term average growth of “developer market-rate salaries” it makes sense to transition as early as possible (as soon as the new alternative is announced/becomes available) to minimise overall cost and capture the market share of those who shan’t transition when deprecation is announced and cost of developers is too high to make it worthwhile.
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beagle3 2444 days ago
Except if the new thing flops and the old thing doesn’t die - which is much more common in the Windows world. MFC is mostly dead. So are ATL and WPF. Win32 is still going strong though.
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