As for trolling, I find sad that on a web site created for people starting business, many feel entitled to get their tools for free, unlike every other professionals.
How large is that industry in the grand scheme of things? How many job openings? How much investment in going into making Windows desktop apps in 2018?
You have to compete with the market as it exists. All of the focus of development and all of the money is going into web and mobile. Every platform vendor except Microsoft is giving away their development environment.
I’m a .Net fan but I can’t imagine living in the hell like landscape of doing WPF development knowing that the industry is passing me by.
If I were going to do desktop development in 2018, it’s going to be working in C/C++ writing really specialized, highly optimized software where I could command a huge premium.
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As for trolling, I find sad that on a web site created for people starting business, many feel entitled to get their tools for free, unlike every other professionals.