The nice thing about Win32 is that it does not try to talk you out of any of this. It just gives you the messages, the handles, the drawing APIs, and enough rope to ...
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.
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.
Thats a good point, LLM can do a lot of heavy lifting as Win32 does have a lot of boilerplate.
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
Demo scene is still alive and kicking, even for desktops.
https://warped3.substack.com/p/coding-mavericks-of-old-and-new