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Neato! 
Happy for you in NOLA
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Sure, most of my projects are desktop applications and that is not because I choose it, but because it is required from the clients. It's a long way from being dead
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I (mostly) only do desktop apps.
Without them, how else would one do web apps?
- Leonardo
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If you're talking about Win 8/10 style Apps, never, because I was (retired now) a firmware dev!
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A Home boy!
It's so built up now you wouldn't recognize it.
Go Skippers!
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You mean there are other types of apps ?
I enjoy re writing my JavaFX apps to Desktop apps and would be happy to share them with anyone
Notebook with spelling correction and SQLite DB
Pong and Breakout
Card Printer You can add photos to the front and back of a 4 in by 5.5 in note card and print text on the two inside pages Printing is done on a 8.5 by 11 stock
Label Machine prints address labels that are saved in SQLite DB on Avery 8250 that are 1 in by 2 5/8 in
you can print all 30 labels or select the label location to print at the desired location
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Rarely, I write mostly back-end code and other applications with no users.
But a few utility programs as well.
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All day every day.
Well most of the day most days, there's a few 'web' back ends around now as well as some Windows Services etc. But most of our software is WinForms. Struggling with what tech to migrate to though - need something that targets desktop as first class, but also want it to be both cross platform and cross-form factor (desktop to mobile and back agai etc) as well as play more nicely with touch. I guess what UWP tried to be, but failed. Now we're considering... react and the web shudder. Sigh.
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Good luck dude. I am struggling through my first website now, and I pretty much hate it. I am using DevEX tools and that helps, somewhat.
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Not only do I still write desktop apps, I have several still in production that are in VB as well.
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VB6 or VB.Net. I am currently worling in both.
"I like it, love it, yes I do" - Rolling Stones
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Actually I had a VB6 app still out in the wild up until about a year ago (sorta a victim to covid).. lol. But I didn't consider it active dev since I havent touched the code in probably close to 3 years. The remaining active projects are VB.NET. Until office politics kills them anyway.
I embrace being the red headed stepchild amongst my C, Java, and JS peers and all their new fangled interwebz and mobile stack. They try to get a rise out of me but I remind them the majority of their tools are still desktop apps. So I can't be that obsolete yet.
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Also working desktop apps in VB.NET. Using NHibernate and SQL Server.
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See my other reply below... the app I mention is also about 90% VB.NET. The rest is C#.
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Absolutely. I am the enterprise architect for a client/server desktop app that supports electronic warfare in the US Air Force. I honestly don't know how we would implement our app any other way (other organizations have tried and failed). We have multiple windows/forms being used at the same time, many that interact with each other. We also cache a ton of data and use it between those forms. The app is a WinForms solution comprised of 80+ projects and about a million lines of code. We interact with 10 different SQL Server databases via ADO.NET using stored procedures for all DB interaction. The app is used by about 400ish users on a daily basis and has been for about 15 years. We are still actively developing new features while maintaining existing functionality.
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"Would you like to play a game?" lol. That actually sounds really cool and a testament to the value of "legacy" desktop development.
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Way cool! I got started in IT in the Navy on A6 Intruder Jets, during Viet Nam. Yes Carrier based. Yed, Pilots that were too god to speak to enlisted pukes on a Mediterranean cruise, couldn't talkt to us enough on the West-Pac cruise to Viet Nam. 
Not sure if you are in Air Force or a civilian contractor, but thank you for your service.
From an old shellback
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I wonder if you will get discharged for releasing details about your development environment to civilians...
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Nothing sensitive about what I mentioned. And I am not active duty.
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Also yes. The app is called Church Windows and can be found on-line. Building a web version begins in September.
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That's the only kind I do. Though I do it well enough that I still have people tell me it works well on a phone. Doh!
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Yes, my last two jobs were all desktop apps. It was much easier to make feature rich apps on the desktop than all the monkeying with web apps.
My current job, unfortunately is just web apps. the weird part is in my daily work, I tend to forget about web apps that I'm supposed to use. I don't really like having a dozen tabs open in my browser, but I don't have an issue with a dozen desktop apps open.
I would prefer to get back to desktop apps, they always felt more solid and easier to control visually than checking 4 different browsers and mobile to verify that it still looked right 
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I do. It's just that we (desktop devs) don't rule the nerd news. One of the factors is, I am sure, the lack of a new framework every week which web devs are fond of.
Which reminds me, I remember reading an article titled something like "Current challenges for developers" and when reading, I was thinking "Nope, I don't have that problem" every few lines. After a paragraph or two, I understood it's a web dev writing about web dev challenges, but assumed web is all there is so "dev" it is.
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