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by melenaos 2573 days ago
Developing on the windows API is an unproductive way of creating apps, especially for the beginner developer.

It's much better to invest their time on learning programming rather how to possition a button and where to listen for click messages.

This is especially true today that the ui standars envolve in such fast pace.
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userbinator 2572 days ago
Developing on the windows API is an unproductive way of creating apps, especially for the beginner developer.

I highly disagree, especially since things like the very useful http://www.winprog.org/tutorial/ exist.

It's much better to invest their time on learning programming rather how to possition a button and where to listen for click messages.

Ironically, MS's own "get started with UWP" tutorial involves nearly no code, but lots of messing around with a GUI (without really understanding what's happening and why):

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/get-started/cre...

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thrower123 2572 days ago
Win32 is one of the few UI paradigms that it makes sense to invest in. It will never die, and you will get exposed to a whole slate of historical patterns that all the new stuff is based on or built in reaction to.
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melenaos 2571 days ago
It will never die but you might not find anyone interested in it. We are shifting to a Marketplace app era and I think that you cannot create a marketplace app with Win32 (I might be wrong here).

Even if you could create a Marketplace app with Win32 api it would be a nightmare to create a responsive UI to support multiple monitor sizes.

I have worked really hard to create responsive UI with Win32 and the result was barely acceptable but with UPF or HTML it's such an easy task, it all come out natural

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