Who downvoted this guy and what for, when he's only stating his opinion on what tools to learn if one wants to develop for desktop? And I personally think he'

Who downvoted this guy and what for, when he's only stating his opinion on what tools to learn if one wants to develop for desktop? And I personally think he's (shmerl) right. Learning a couple almost completely redundant APIs, but each with it's own problems, gothas and plain stupid decisions is hardly a good thing.