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Than win32!? Are you serious? Xlib is pretty bad but win32 is absolute bonkers. Or are you saying the opposite?

• pjmlp 10y ago
  Of course I am serious. I do UI coding since Amiga 500 days and never found so borked API, with more parameters and configuration structures than Xlib, without any support for printing or proper use of fonts. The amount of wasted hours of my life using xlsfonts.... And those bare bones widgets, yet another headache.
  • tankenmate 10y ago
    And yet Xlib ran happily on machines with 4MB of RAM and would only use 512K of that; mind you that was X11R3. I used to run this very config on Apollo Domain/OS machines in 1990.
    • pjmlp 10y ago
      The Amiga had 512KB for the whole OS, including a GUI stack way better than X. For us targeting desktop computing, the network features of X were never relevant, what mattered was GUI toolkits for workstation usage, running on the same computer.