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I concur that Windows has always been a mess, but at any given point, wasn’t one of those things the “prescribed way” of doings things? Like, I get that Win32 i

I concur that Windows has always been a mess, but at any given point, wasn’t one of those things the “prescribed way” of doings things? Like, I get that Win32 is never going away, and some of the ideas were busts. The Java phase I think is more analogous to modern React Native and Electron apps.

Illniyar 1y ago
They were newer. I don't know if they were prescribed. It took a long time for newer frameworks to reach feature parity and even longer to get deprecated. Microsoft would routinely suggest both, I think there were articles in MSN showing how to do stuff with each side by side. Like programming language flavors. Linux is even more of a mess I imagine. I think Mac, and especially iOS, were the odd ones out. The Apple ecosystem is built on making sure everyone does things their way. And that translates to having one blessed framework you must use.