@benjojo I loved development for Windows Phone too. I worked at a place prior that had to make apps... Windows was the easiest and best experience, following by iPhone, and Android was a nightmare. These were proper apps rather than web views, and the Windows experience was truly incredible as their dev tooling was incredible (but yeah, you had to run Windows, but that's the same deal with Apple too)

@dee @benjojo Huh? You are the first person i've heard imply that iOS developments isn't a nightmare.
Largely agree on the rest of it however. Windows used to be quite developer friendly.

@theartlav @benjojo oh I didn't mean to suggest that... iOS development is a nightmare, but compared to Android development it's a bit dreamy and lovely.

it's all relative.

Windows Phone on the other hand, an actual dev ecosystem that was almost a joy to use.

time for me to build an app on all 3 platforms, the same app, back in 2014:

• Windows = 1 week, with time to spare (which I wasted)
• iOS = 4 weeks
• Android = 6 weeks

and of all three apps, the Windows one worked best, felt most right for the phone, and was most capable (because it was all so easy I added a little more, and because the framework gave so much for free)

@benjojo the problem, as with any windows product, was that it's windows lol

@benjojo Fellow Windows phone mourner here. Bring back tiles! The people yearn for the tiles!

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It says windows not windows phone