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  • M MarcusCole6833

    Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?

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    raddevus
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    MarcusCole092076 wrote:

    Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?

    His voice echoed in the empty cave... :laugh: Unfortunately, many of us have found that we cannot predominantly do desktop dev. I do still work on some desktop apps but more and more they are a pain to deploy and they should really just be implemented as web apps or at least WPF / UWP or something.

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      Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?

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      Tim Carmichael
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      Good question... of they code I've written in the past 10 years, most of it has been back-end processing (Windows services) or console applications that can be scheduled and executed. When I have to write 'interactive' code, it is usually VBA Macros in Excel that existed before I arrived.. we just maintain the beast.

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      • M MarcusCole6833

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        Rick York
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        The stuff I do is predominately automation systems and supporting apps so, while they can run on my desktop and laptop boxes, that is not where they are deployed. They end up in one factory or another in one country or another. FWIW, at my previous employer most of our customers were suppliers to Apple, Samsung, and their competitors so things we made can be found in the vast majority of the world's mobile devices. My current employer is in a completely different line of business. I have finally escaped from the semiconductor industry and I am very glad for that.

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        • M MarcusCole6833

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          R Giskard Reventlov
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          Yup, that would be me. :)

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            Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?

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            Ravi Bhavnani
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            Not for a paid living, but I actively support this[^] desktop app that's used by 10K+ users on a daily basis. /ravi

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              Yup, that would be me. :)

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              :thumbsup: /ravi

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                MarcusCole092076 wrote:

                Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?

                His voice echoed in the empty cave... :laugh: Unfortunately, many of us have found that we cannot predominantly do desktop dev. I do still work on some desktop apps but more and more they are a pain to deploy and they should really just be implemented as web apps or at least WPF / UWP or something.

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                Mark_Wallace
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                raddevus wrote:

                they should really just be implemented as web apps or at least WPF / UWP or something.

                ... Which everyone will prefer to run on a desktop.

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                • M MarcusCole6833

                  Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?

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                  Maximilien
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                  Me, using c++ and MFC.

                  I'd rather be phishing!

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                  • M MarcusCole6833

                    Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?

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                    Lost User
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                    Moi.

                    Speed of sound - 1100 ft/sec Speed of light - 186,000 mi/sec Speed of stupid - instantaneous.

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                    • M MarcusCole6833

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                      Chris Losinger
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                      up until a year ago: me now, it's all REST

                      image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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                      • M MarcusCole6833

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                        Lost User
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                        I have been for the past year. Before that, I wrote software for the Microsoft Hololens and back-end services for the military.

                        When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others. Same thing when you are stupid.

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                          up until a year ago: me now, it's all REST

                          image processing toolkits | batch image processing

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                          Tim Carmichael
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                          Is that a well deserved rest or is that still to come?

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                            Me, using c++ and MFC.

                            I'd rather be phishing!

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                            James_Parsons
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                            Dear god :~

                            i cri evry tiem

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                            • R raddevus

                              MarcusCole092076 wrote:

                              Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?

                              His voice echoed in the empty cave... :laugh: Unfortunately, many of us have found that we cannot predominantly do desktop dev. I do still work on some desktop apps but more and more they are a pain to deploy and they should really just be implemented as web apps or at least WPF / UWP or something.

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                              Kevin Marois
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                              raddevus wrote:

                              many of us have found that we cannot predominantly do desktop dev.

                              Ridiculous. I've been doing desktop dev for 30+ years and will continue to so. There is no shortage of work out there.

                              If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                                raddevus wrote:

                                many of us have found that we cannot predominantly do desktop dev.

                                Ridiculous. I've been doing desktop dev for 30+ years and will continue to so. There is no shortage of work out there.

                                If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                                raddevus
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                                Oh.

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                                • M Maximilien

                                  Me, using c++ and MFC.

                                  I'd rather be phishing!

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                                  raddevus
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                                  Wow. MFC. I really liked that framework. Amazing that it still going somewhere. DocView architecture FTW!!! :laugh:

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                                  • M MarcusCole6833

                                    Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?

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                                    Kevin Marois
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                                    This questions comes up all the time. Right now I'm working on a WPF app for a medical device. Before that I did a WPF app for automotive diagnostics. Before that a WPF app for the chiropractic industry. Before that a WPF for the construction industry, before that.... ... and on and on and on... For 30+ years I've been doing desktop apps. There still are and always will be desktop apps. Some apps have no reason to be and never will be web apps.

                                    If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                                    • K Kevin Marois

                                      raddevus wrote:

                                      many of us have found that we cannot predominantly do desktop dev.

                                      Ridiculous. I've been doing desktop dev for 30+ years and will continue to so. There is no shortage of work out there.

                                      If it's not broken, fix it until it is. Everything makes sense in someone's mind. Ya can't fix stupid.

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                                      enhzflep
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                                      Oh yeah? :laugh: And what, pray tell, do you think the word many means?

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                                      • M MarcusCole6833

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                                        jesarg
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                                        Our legacy systems more than a couple years old are predominantly desktop, and they still need maintaining.

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                                        • M MarcusCole6833

                                          Who still predominantly codes for the desktop for a living?

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                                          Marc Clifton
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                                          Seems like you meant to post this in the Lounge, not Insider News. Been there, done that. :) As to your question, I am currently coding projects in/with/for/on: ASP.NET/Razor Misc web applications (my own back-end server and a few 3rd party Javascript client frameworks) Desktop utilities in C# Server-side DLL plugins / WCF WPF desktop app WinForm (using DevExpress) desktop apps Beaglebone Single Board Computer in Python It's interesting when I list that, as I often enough touch every one of those projects in a single day. So, "predominantly" doesn't really exist for me, it's pretty much all over the map. Marc

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