I miss when apps were called programs
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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Winforms died so UWP could live and all programs are now crapps and take 60 gigglybytes to display a flashing cursor
Winforms
I loved winforms it was the first thing I ever learned for gui and the senior dev taught me all the tricks for making UIs that scaled well and looked clean. Nothing ever really gave me the same satisfaction of drag and dropping the dataframe viewer onto a page it just felt so easy to made crappy crud apps in. I just hate modern frontend so much its way too over complicated for what I need to do half the time.
It all went wrong when the accountant brought in his surface with a high dpi screen and was forced to move on
Winforms died
I am still writing new apps in it, I fear I will be one of those people using outdated technologies forever
Anything after WPF is completely lost on me. I have to use react now i dont want to make it stop. I remember when I thought webforms was cool
Vibe coding a web view using a massive JavaScript framework that has massively breaking changes every 3 months, installing 20GB of dependencies, which struggles to run at 60 FPS on hardware that represents the combined computing power of the cold war
What if we recreated the "get with the program" movements of the 1960s, but they were "download the app" instead?
Actual pic of me showing frontend devs the beauty of a strong type system 
yess yessss, gaze upon my mighty static typing
That's it I'm taking away all of your programming privileges. That's right, no more programming. Until you can all learn to be responsible we're just gonna have to make do with what we've got.
Porting PyGame to PHP out of hipster spite
Native WebView
lmao
why is the website freezing like its loading game textures
But is it written in Rust
try my new language: rustscript
That's the beauty of it; it can be!*
*PHP can load system-level binary link libraries (.dll and .so files) via custom PHP modules. So hypothetically, you could write a bunch of whiz-bang functionality in Rust, export it as a PHP plugin/extension, and load that in with the PHP core.
Very cool, I like it.
But I will not use it because the other approaches have larger ecosystems. Php is great for web programming; I have written hundreds of thousands of lines of php over the last decades. But I am definitely going to use JavaScript and Java to write apps
Can't be worse than electron.
Sorry to break it for you
Native just means its runs on a computer these days
native means it’s not in a docker container
:D
PHP wrapped in a web browser wrapped in a native app. I love progress.
My money's on the "kotlin" part being irrelevant due to only being used to display a WebView
just vibe code it bro
is this satire?
No im very serious
Hi very serious I'm beanis