True, the project where I used the approach above was a TUI, so windows terminal sort of eats the impact of stuff like user32 and dwrite for you. One trick I k

True, the project where I used the approach above was a TUI, so windows terminal sort of eats the impact of stuff like user32 and dwrite for you. One trick I know of to make user32 a bit more lightweight is to call ImmDisableIme prior to creating your first window. This disables a lot of the TSF integration, which is notably quite slow. Not sure if it impacts memory footprint but worth a try. It of course does what the name says and disables IME support, so not a viable option if you have users who need IME