[thrower123]

Regardless of any financial considerations with the Store around UWP, they really just screwed the pooch on the developer experience. Going back to Window 8, it's been a trainwreck for years. Nobody wants to chase their recommended newest thing when it is perpetually half-baked, so a fair number of people have thrown up their hands and decided to just stick with tried-and-true WinForms or WPF or raw Win32 forever.

[pjmlp]

The very fact that WinDev doesn't get it why using COM and dealing with IDL files without any kind of tooling support is a problem shows how they don't even make an effort to understand what Windows developers want.

It is not like something like C++ Builder and Delphi don't exist for 25 years now.