[fultonfaknem42]

I can't answer your question exactly. I came around only after Cocoa was established.

This does make me wonder if the transition from Carbon to Cocoa is analogous though. Win32 comes off as more of a "functional" approach to programming (C) and UWP is looking more object oriented (as to C++). It makes me wonder what kinds of conceptual advantages are being brought on board by moving from win32 to UWP. I think that conceptually I am in favor of the transition, and I'd wager that all the issues that arise are common to a functional to object-oriented transition.

But that real questions: What are the benefits? Is it conceptually easier to grasp thus promoting more developer interaction? Are we expecting speed benefits (are the performance losses expected and in range?) Is it a false dichotomy to only look at Functional vs OO? Maybe a context-oriented data approach is more appropriate?

Dunno.