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It probably depends on the market and use case. I suspect LOB software is mostly web based these days (easier to deploy, upgrade, and maintain). A lot of desktop software is still written in C/C++ for Win32. Although Microsoft would probably love it if developers starting coding to WinRT which, I think, works best with C#.


And yet we get consulting projects to port stuff from MFC/C++ into WPF/C#.


I presume your customer's websites don't end with ".io" and they are actual profitable businesses?


Nope. It happened twice last year.

Projects in the chemical industry, desktop software to control the manufacturing machines and process result datasets.




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