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Top 5 C++ Xaml Projects
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It's probably very hardware dependent now, just like it was back then. My calculator opens to interactive in much less than 1 second, but I've got a 9800x3d and fast memory and nvme drive. The other guy saying his start menu takes 8 seconds to open probably has a pretty shit computer.
I definitely got the stupid hourglass in win 95 when trying to open anything, but my understanding of computers at the time was that black ones were faster than beige ones, so my computer was probably shit.
I tried to look up calculator win 95 vids on YouTube, there are a couple. One gets an hourglass - but less than a second, one is instant, one shows the calculator crashing lol.
During this I also found out that Microsoft Calculator is open source: https://github.com/microsoft/calculator
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Windows UI Library
WinUI: a modern UI framework with a rich set of controls and styles to build dynamic and high-performing Windows applications.
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Could be the other way around, where react in the start menu is rendered to XAML. Then mod tools would just modify the rendered XAML.
https://github.com/microsoft/react-native-xaml
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NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Xaml projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | calculator | 30,989 |
| 2 | Windows UI Library | 7,742 |
| 3 | DiskInfo | 196 |
| 4 | react-native-xaml | 109 |
| 5 | XAML-Lab | 11 |
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