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I also found Win16/32 with "the giant switch statement" easy to program & reason about. Once you weapped your head around how to minimize the rdraw area, there

• smoldesu 4y ago
  I agree with that, but I felt like the tooling surrounding it offered just enough functionality to make really nice, functional applications. The tedium was never really an issue to me since I mostly stuck to the GTK3 ethos of making small, polished and usable apps, but I could see how it would get complicated when making something more advanced. Like you said, though, it's a great entrypoint for people like me who work on servers first and write software second. Kinda like how Zenity was a nice swiss-army-knife for script kiddies who got their rocks off watching sliders go from 0-to-100. Unfortunately, it looks like GTK4 isn't quite as accessible, which is going to be really challenging for it's adoption. The regression of features was frustrating enough, but now I genuinely don't know how to write an app with the library anymore. It's insane that they'd expect me to re-write my app to fit their brand new library, especially if it might not be sticking around very long either...