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Carsten's avatar

We can still go back to writing UIs that are condensed and structured well as, for instance, the SysInternal tools are. Maybe using LLMs we can avoid writing all the boilerplate and concentrate on writing the business layer. I, for instance, would love these kinds of clean and compact UIs back on my desktop.

Ivan Rogoz's avatar

Thats a good point, LLM can do a lot of heavy lifting as Win32 does have a lot of boilerplate.

Enon's avatar

There was a guy who did GUI apps in assembly in the before times... tiny, tiny apps. Like demoscene but for desktop. Steve Gibson?

https://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm

Ivan Rogoz's avatar

Demo scene is still alive and kicking, even for desktops.

https://warped3.substack.com/p/coding-mavericks-of-old-and-new