>>And I'd like if if WPF were going to be around for a while (well, it will be around for a while, it just won't be updated in any significant manner),

Bernard Baruch, a sage investor (WAY before most of you were born) had a simple motto:

"Buy too late and sell too soon."

That's how most of us have to approach a new programming language. It just takes too much effort and time to allow for blind alleys and dead ends and the cost to the client for a bad choice can be huge.

When it comes to making a serious investment in learning and deploying a new language:

If:
-there are some serious real world benefits (not "cool" stuff - although that's fun if it comes with the benefits)
-at least 5 versions have been published.
-thousands of serious business apps have been deployed and are still running and are being upgraded
-at least 5 years have passed since its announcement
-the publisher is obviously making some serious money with it.

then, maybe a schlub like me can take a chance on it.

That said, thank goodness that there are those quick-witted people out there who can blaze the trails with these things and let the schlubs see what's real and not real.









>>And I'd like if if WPF were going to be around for a while (well, it will be around for a while, it just won't be updated in any significant manner),