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MFC here! When you use it as a thin wrapper around win32 it's not bad. Actually I quite like it, but that's probably at least partly because I've been using it
by roel_v 9y ago
MFC here! When you use it as a thin wrapper around win32 it's not bad. Actually I quite like it, but that's probably at least partly because I've been using it for so long and I know the warts.
I'm convinced that the time I spend on working around its age and oldschool architecture is less than what I would have spend had I switched/"upgraded" toolkits every 3-5 years as seems to be the common practise. Same goes for using C++, btw.
- gcp 9y agoI don't think native toolkits (well, major ones that gain adoption) are coming out much in the C++ space. I really only know the ones I mentioned!
- roel_v 9y agoOh in the Windos sphere there was Windows Forms, and XAML, and some others thatvI forgot; and html/css based ones (there were some 15+ years ago!); and some other 'universal' ones like wxWidgets but not open source existed years ago. New ones coming out not so much, no.
- mmargerum 9y agoI loved WTL when I was building native desktop and windows ce apps.