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I don't know what it is about it, but having came from Win32 and going to Cocoa (in 2008 or so), it just felt like an amazingly well engineered set of API's. Ev
by bluedino 5y ago
I don't know what it is about it, but having came from Win32 and going to Cocoa (in 2008 or so), it just felt like an amazingly well engineered set of API's. Everything was so fancy and elegant, while Windows felt like hack on top of hack.
- mpweiher 5y agoImagine how it felt in the early 90s!
- pjmlp 5y agoUnfortunately it still does, they had a nice thing going with WinRT, .NET Native and C++/CX, and they just messed it all up. Now imagine the experience porting a NeXTSTEP app into MFC back in the the Windows 98 glory days.
- 2ion 5y agoIf the state of current (10/11) Windows UI and UX is any indicator it must have gotten much worse since 2008. I would never have done anything that shows a GUI on Windows hadn't I had access to Qt to absolve me from that hell.