Just disappointed that Microsoft depreciates stuff people have worked for years on
Microsoft has always encouraged the vocal crowd to chase the shiny new things, presumably because it is what they make the most money from. There has also always been a
silent majority who continue to use the stuff that works because it already works - Windows Forms is still a thing and it "ain't goin' nowhere".
.NET 3.5sp1 is scheduled for demolition in 2029, so 4.8 should last a while. See
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/lifecycle/products/microsoft-net-frameworkThe ODA has released SWIG-generated .NET wrappers for for .NET core but not .NET classic which is the "legacy" source-code compatible SDK. Code for the SWIG version looks a lot more like C++ than the "legacy" source code.
But yah, it's annoying when the shiny new things are made from other shiny new things. Somethings you can head down the rabbit-hole and compile them from frameworks you do actually use, sometimes the rabbit-hole just keeps going.
People will abandon on-premise apps and storage to flock to the the cloud when it has no latency, data breaches, outages and bill-shock.