偶然间，从RSS的订阅发现，曾经的WPF的牛人Josh Smith已经转投了iOS怀抱，哎，他是被WinRT伤了心。。就像他在Becoming an iOS Developer博文中写道：
Despite my years ofinvestment in becoming a Windows desktop software developer, and my four yearsas a Microsoft MVP, I decided to branch out into totally foreign territory. I boughta MacBook Pro, a heap of books for iOS noobs, and started from scratch. Thiswas not an easy or comfortable decision, by any means, but it was the logicalthing to do. So, I did it.
Blog: Does anyone actualy care about WinRT?
If ever there was a blogpost that ensures I will not be awarded the Microsoft MVP award again, this isthe one. Not that I care…
Windows 8 was announced anddistributed as a developer preview back in September of 2011. There was a shortburst of excitement in the blogosphere about WinRT, which is the supposedreplacement for the Win32 platform.
That fizzled out prettyquickly.
Recently Microsoft releasedthe Windows 8 consumer preview. The most notable responses to this have been anoverwhelming dislike for the new look and feel of Visual Studio, and a seriesof criticisms of Windows 8 for its usability by the average PC user (such as this video).
That hasn’t fizzled outyet.
Even firmly entrenchedMicrosoft developers, such as many of us in the XAML Disciples (formerly knownas the WPF Disciples), have expressed a lack of interest in learning WinRT. SeethisDisciples thread which veered away from its original topic (anannouncement of some WinRT feature) into a series of thought-provokingexplanations of why people are not bothering to get into WinRT. The generalconsensus on that thread is that if you lack confidence in the prospects ofWindows 8 and, by extension WinRT, why bother learning it? Why not spend yourtime and energy learning more successful and in-demand technologies, whosefutures look bright and promising?
I am not saying thatWindows 8 will fail spectacularly, nor am I saying it won’t. All that I can saywith certainty is that the .NET developer community is decidedly not flocking to it,and that should be very concerning for Microsoft.
I think that WPF is thesafest bet these days for Windows desktop developers. I can’t see enterprisesoftware leaving the Windows desktop any time soon, and I certainly can’t seeit migrating en masseto Metro for the PC. I think that we will start seeing more and more enterprisesoftware being written for tablets, in particular the iPad.
If you have a compellingargument that proves me wrong, I’m all ears (well, all eyes, since this is ablog…).