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by sota_pop 534 days ago
Having come from WPF with dotnet, XAML/WPF used to feel clunky and dated.

However, web front-end feels very chaotic by comparison. I’m still no expert, but my big gotchas are always div sizes ie min-max-fr height/width.

With WPF you can size Grids as auto or “*” and things size dynamically - I’ve grown to appreciate the WPF Grid and data binding.

It also doesn’t help that I find trial-and-error more helpful than css/html docs. The docs often feel tautological to me for some reason and it feels like there’s too many ways to achieve the same thing. I definitely recognize this personal experience - YMMV