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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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Yes, still alive and kicking
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Small children
Drunk people
Yoga pants
Real programmers use butterflies
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In vino veritas! 🍷🍷🍷
And down with yoga pants! 
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Greg Utas wrote: And down with yoga pants!
That's what he said! 
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this actually made me chuckle.
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As I say, "a camera can be used to tell a variety of truths".
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Or even wide-angle lenses, much beloved by real estate agents.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Yoga pants
... are a priviledge - not a right!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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If your SO asks "do these pants make me look fat?"
Run.
>64
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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“ No fatter than usual honey!”
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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There's a saying that states that the two types of people that tell the truth are "Drunks and dying men"
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I've spent at least a day and a half and over 1700 lines of code (compiling but most never having been executed) just *loading* a TTF file.
The tables therein are convoluted. There's one named "OS/2". And yeah it appears as though it was designed by a committee of vendors led by Apple. If it wasn't I'd be shocked just because of how it turned out.
Instead of baking the glyphs for the fonts out they allow you to compose "compound glyphs" which are a composite of multiple glyphs transformed and offset. I suppose it's to make the file size smaller but it makes decoding them a hassle that requires heap allocs and deallocs in order to do the bookkeeping to process the whole mess, furthering heap fragmentation and also potentially causing out of memory exceptions on RAM that's only used temporarily during the loading process and then tossed. I can see why I have to do similar with decompressing JPEGs but font files should never be this complicated.
I really don't like being in the situation of having a day of coding under my belt but having not even run the code yet.
Real programmers use butterflies
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