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I think VS of 2005 and VS of 2021 is wildly different. Back then, chatty Apis like MFC made wizards and code generation almost a requirement for doing anything
by alkonaut 5y ago
I think VS of 2005 and VS of 2021 is wildly different.
Back then, chatty Apis like MFC made wizards and code generation almost a requirement for doing anything useful. Putting a window on screen required the equivalent of rendering with Vulkan today.
The problem wasn’t Visual Studio rotting the mind, it would have rotted under Win32+mfc anyway.
For comparison, a netcore6 command line app is now a one liner.
- xyzzy_plugh 5y ago> Putting a window on screen required the equivalent of rendering with Vulkan today. I'm honestly doubting you've done either because these are not remotely comparable. A "hello world" win32 program that draws a 2D image is easily at least one or two orders of magnitude less code than the vulkan equivalent. I've sold win32/mfc software that was only a few hundred lines.