Yeah, that verbosity is pretty ridiculous. I could make a responsive, resizable window in VB6 by dragging and dropping something in 10 seconds in 1998 if I want

Yeah, that verbosity is pretty ridiculous. I could make a responsive, resizable window in VB6 by dragging and dropping something in 10 seconds in 1998 if I wanted to. I understand it's not the same, but wow, the tooling has taken a step back now. I feel like C++ is getting ridiculously cumbersome to code on par with Java, and I also feel like this "XAML" crap by Microsoft would drive away all but the more patient programmers.