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Win32 programming was more akin to the X-windows protocol/API and boy.. let me tell you that Win32 was kids play in comparison to the fragmented mess that is ra
by whizzter 3y ago
Win32 programming was more akin to the X-windows protocol/API and boy.. let me tell you that Win32 was kids play in comparison to the fragmented mess that is raw X-windows (It's not for nothing that KDE is/was built on QT and Gnome on GTK).
Yes, the auto-generated boilerplates was stupid (and obscured so much) but it was their way of trying to get people ahead in an "easier" way.
- jandrese 3y agoWhen I messed around with X programming I thought the base layer was primitive, but straightforward for the most part. You had to do damn near everything my hand, but it was clean and orthogonal. Where the nightmare started is the X toolkit. It slathered on three extra layers of complexity before providing any benefit for the programmer and was so damn confusing even when you did get it working. And what did you get out of it? Athena widgets. GTK is a dream in comparison.