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I remember when I went from Win32 with Petzold to Qt and was flabbergasted: "GUIs can be this easy?!"

• pjmlp 5y ago
  You could have seen that already with Object Windows Library or Visual Components Library from Borland. Even MFC, although lower level than Borland offerings, is much better than plain Win32. Using bare bones Win32 is only for masochists that sweare for C's "simplicity". Although Windows team seems to have enough of them, so nowadays legacy MFC or Qt/VCL are a much better experience than XAML C++, given the lack of Visual Studio tooling for it.
  • formerly_proven 5y ago
    I wasn't using C when I got the Petzold, so only stuff reachable from C FFI was usable.
  • jstimpfle 5y ago
    > Using bare bones Win32 is only for masochists that sweare for C's "simplicity". Pulling another straw man, are we?
    • pjmlp 5y ago
      Indeed, want to start another thread?
      • jstimpfle 5y ago
        No, would like you to stop taking so much public space by crying such cheap non-sequiturs all over the place.
        • pjmlp 5y ago
          If you don't like it, don't engage and move on. Plenty of other comments to read here.