With each release of Windows there are less and less HWND/GDI based applications. Standard set of HWND/GDI controls (EDIT,COMBOBOX, BUTTON + so called common c

With each release of Windows there are less and less HWND/GDI based applications. Standard set of HWND/GDI controls (EDIT,COMBOBOX, BUTTON + so called common controls) is not changing since Win95 so it is a dead end. And in general modern UI tends to move to composition of UI from primitive ctls achieving rich agglomerates. Like in Web UIs: <div class="search-input"> <input type="text" /> <button /> </div> HWND/GDI is really dead for many reasons. Badly scalable on high-DPI, no alpha, no 3D like here: https://sciter.com/sciter-webgl-is-officially-published-in-v-5-0-3-0/ https://sciter.com/sciter-webgl-is-officially-published-in-v... (second screenshot) and no styling/customization.