3 ms·

I would remind you that Microsoft disowned MFC and aggressively pushed all developers off of win32api once .net was released. Then they went about rewriting vis

I would remind you that Microsoft disowned MFC and aggressively pushed all developers off of win32api once .net was released. Then they went about rewriting visual studio in .net and possibly the office suite as well. I hope Apple doesn’t attempt this because, in my opinion, I don’t think Microsoft’s products benefited from that churn.

xyzzy_plugh 4y ago
This is an extreme exaggeration. The shit you can do with MFC is still frightening, even today.
- nu11ptr 4y ago
  > The shit you can do with MFC is still frightening, even today. Only vaguely familiar with MFC. Elaborate?
  - nyanpasu64 4y ago
    Foxit Reader was (is?) developed using MFC.
    - pcwalton 4y ago
      To be fair, the first version of Foxit Reader is from no later than 2005. Its contemporaries were, like, Kazaa and Winamp.
pjmlp 4y ago
And yet a couple of devs sabotaged C++/CX efforts to the point that C++/WinRT with WinUI 3.0 isn't a match to MFC in tooling.