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Thanks for the chuckle. Last week I tried using the Win32 APIs to make a little ssh/sftp file browser, gave up, and started rewriting all my work in Rust. A hal

Thanks for the chuckle. Last week I tried using the Win32 APIs to make a little ssh/sftp file browser, gave up, and started rewriting all my work in Rust. A half-baked fledgling Rust GUI library with a short gitbook's worth of documentation is more usable than the API Microsoft has been shipping for... decades?

forrestthewoods 3y ago
> is more usable than the API Microsoft has been shipping for... decades? Those things are directly related. The Win32 API is the result of decades of accumulated cruft. Mistakes made 20 years ago must be supported forever. Rust APIs are the result of learning from those decades of experience and doing to better.
- ryukoposting 3y ago
  It's amazing what can be done when there's basically no technical debt to grapple with (the Rust GUI library I'm using is called dioxus, by the way, and it's brilliant). At the same time, I'm often perplexed by the nonsense that gets pushed as "modern software design."