Miguel de Icaza, the father of Mono, has an interesting take on Avalon (Windows Presentation Framework, WPF). He says that “Avalon is the J2EE of GUI APIs”. For those that don’t know J2EE (congratulations!), this is not a compliment. Speaking of someone who’s reaction to Avalon was “man, that’s complicated”, I tend to agree with him. I’d go on to say that its the “Word 2000 of GUI APIs”: it has way more features than the average developer wants to deal with, and in fact gets in the way of simple UI design.
sigh.
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