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by jjordan 134 days ago
Microsoft is progressively making everything an instance of Chrome. They've seemingly altogether given up the notion of native platform rendering. The win32 api for native ui elements hasn't been touched in two decades. There have been a few failed attempts to move on from it like Siverlight, WinForms, UWP, LightSwitch, etc, but they never bothered to revisit their native UI library. So now everything is a Chrome instance.
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They should just buy Delphi from Embarcadero and make it available cheaply. And put Anders back in charge. Then maybe people would start writing proper native Win64 Software again...
And it's objectively terrible