> Win32 is the past, the present, and the future. The problem is there hasn't really been a present for anyone starting new desktop projects, at least with com

> Win32 is the past, the present, and the future. The problem is there hasn't really been a present for anyone starting new desktop projects, at least with common corporate restrictions. Can't build on win32 because that's not the future, can't build on WPF because that's not the future, can't build on UWP because that doesn't work on windows 7, can't build on qt because we're an MS shop and don't acknowledge the existence of third parties. For several years it's just been "fuck it, we'll make a web app". > A lot of developers these days are used to even simple apps taking over 1MB of disk, and when shown a native Win32 one will be astonished at how small and fast it is; This is the most promising part of the librem phone for me, a couple dozen lines of C and you have a an app. On android you can't even get to hello world without downloading a bloated IDE, a huge SDK and a dozen xml files, they don't even provide instructions on how to build outside of an IDE.