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"Why is building Windows apps so complicated?" Compared to what? Web development?

• axby 5y ago
  Python lets you throw together a GUI pretty easily. I used it to build some simple wxWidgets applications when I was learning how to program. Then trying to build a wxWidgets application in C++ isn't that much of a leap from that. Building it on linux is super easy. OP is right in that it is not obvious how to even start building on windows, at least if you want to know every command being run and do it all from the command line, instead of using the microsoft IDE. After downloading a ton of tools and looking through the IDE, it starts to feel like something is wrong if you just want to build "hello world" and were able to do it easily on linux.